The Blockade Runner — page 157: what you’re looking at

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158 THE BLOCKADE RUNNER: the purpose of inspecting a. rare flower, which’ had - commanded her praise for several minutes. She soon found herself admiring the: profusion .of exotics that bloomed around her, filling the whole. room with their fragrance, and forming a. bower of great beauty. | An exclamation escaped Norah’s. lips as. she caught sight of a flower, the most beautiful of all she had yet seen; but it hung out of the window, yet within reach. ) Norah leaned forward to lift the flower gently, in order that she might become fully acquainted. with its. exquisite loveliness. All at once a hand encircled her waist, and the form: of a man rose before her. - A glance showed the girl his handsome: face: and ayil black eyes. : A wild ery pealed from her throat, and the next moment she had fallen to the. floor in a swoon, in: which state Dora found her a few moments later. Comichbooksico 3