The Blockade Runner — page 209: what you’re looking at

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210 THE BLOCKADE RUNNER. The next moment the negro seemed to increase several inches in stature, and all at once Mardo the Malay was thrown upon the floor with a force great enough to break every bone in his body. “Now let de yaller serpint crawl if he kin!” ex- claimed Jupe, casting a look of triumph upon the privateer’s spy, who lay on the floor apparently dead, but with his knife, the deadly creese, still clutched in his right hand. The two women started back with blanched faces. “You have killed him, Jupe!” exclaimed Bentham. “Dat seems to be a fact, Massa Bob,” was the giant’s answer, as he grinned. ‘“ Wonder what Cap’n Dick ’d say ef he could look in heah an’ see de Malay man on de fio’—dead ?” If Jupe had failed to finish the captain’s first spy, Black Tom, he had made sure work of the second. Mardo the Malay was dead, killed by that crushing descent to the floor from the inci of his captor. After years of spying the yellow leopard had met his match, and Jupe had again saved Bentham’s life. If Captain Powers wonld secure his rival, the loyal young gunner, he must first rid the world of Jupe, who seemed destined to baffle him on every occasion. Ah! he may wait in the little old house for his yellow spy. He would never come again. ’ ‘her — Co) mieboo [SiG