His Other Wife: A Novel — page 292: what you’re looking at

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284 FAITH’S DELIVERANCE. her a look full of amazement. It would not have sur- prised him more to have heard a lamb plead for mercy toward the wolf whose fang had been wrenched from its throat. The wonderful, scintillant eyes, keen and vigilant as those of a bird of prey, darted a glance of fierce con- tempt upon the girl, and then returned to the face on the floor, which now presented an aspect most horrible to behold. The eyes were starting from their sockets, and a deep _ purple hue overspread the skin; a faint, gurgling sound was emitted from the open jaws, through which a blackening tongue protruded, and again the deep hush succeeded. And now a harsh, shrill laugh, like the shriek of the hyena, rang out from the stiff-drawn lips of the Malay, and, flinging aloft his terrible arms, he lifted his face up- ward, as if adjuring some unseen power, and pronounced one name in a strange language. It was the name of the woman he had loved and lost through the treachery of the man who now lay lifeless be- fore him. In the attitude and expression of the Oriental was that wild solemnity of some barbaric priest commending a human sacrifice to a pagan deity. And such, in fact, was the awful rite that had just been performed ; for this dark and wizard-like creature was one of that terrible band of Eastern devotees called ‘‘ Thugs,” Comicbooks.co 3