His Other Wife: A Novel — page 291: what you’re looking at

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FAITH’S: DELIVERANCE. 283: visible to the horror-stricken gaze of the girl—one lying full length, the other, lean and cadaverous, bending over him with still those fatal fingers clenched about their vic- tim’s throat. CHAPTER XXXI. FAITH S DELIVERANCE. A cry of remonstrance from the lips of the girl broke the frightful stillness that followed the captain’s fall. It seemed to Faith that those powerful, athletic limbs had lost their capacity to move, far less to struggle, in the clutches of the strange, weird creature that crouched over him. : : It was, of course, the Malay. The white cotton tunic or toga that composed his Oriental garb, made the con- trast of his skin (which was almost as dark as bronze, and hard and dry as parchment) all the more remarkable, His long arms, bare to the shoulder, were muscular and supple as if their fibers were of iron wire, and their veins were swollen and cord-like as they strained at their deadly work. When Faith uttered that exclamation against the deed that too evidently was being committed before her eyes, the Malay seemed to halt for one instant as he turned on : ~ Gomircbooks. (E(o)