The Rajah's Fortress — page 261: what you’re looking at

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248 THE RAJAH’S FORTRESS, “Flee! Flee! I will finish this dog of an English- man with my own hands.” He tore the saber from the robber’s grasp, trem- bled under the heavy blow that Forbes dealt him with the stool, and then with a leap like a tiger, plunged torward, and down they went together, just as another burst of rifle fire shook the dungeon- walls, and, snuffing out the lamp, left them te struggle in total darkness COLUM 1OOO S (C@