The Rajah's Fortress — page 90: what you’re looking at

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THE RAJAH'S FORTRESS, 81 CHAPTER X, THE CHINAMAN MAKES AN OFFER. By noon some appearance of order had been restored in the captured town. Here and there curling wreaths of smoke hovered over the ashes of burned buildings. Soldiers hurried to and fro with stretchers, bearing wounded Englishmen to the row of bamboo houses on the south side of the square which had been utilized 'as a hospital, and where the surgeon was hard at work. Happily more of the men had been wounded than killed, but the enemy had suffered terribly. The streets had been cleared, and only dark stains here and there remained to show what had taken place a few hours before. Just off the square, in a little court shaded by palm trees, headquarters had been established, and from the dome floated the English flag. Seated on a camp stool, with his back against the wall. Chutney was relating to an interested circle of auditors his adventures on the rock. In- side on a pile of blankets Carew and Terril were COLUM 1OOO SS co