His Other Wife: A Novel — page 293: what you’re looking at

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FAITHS DELIVERANCE. 285 who constitute themselves a priesthood to the insatiate Goddess of Kali, and who consecrate every act of private revenge to that bloody and mystical religion which they profess. For the irreparable wrong that Valasco had in- flicted upon Morad, the Malay, the latter had sworn to be avenged. For this purpose he had attached himself to the for- tunes of the Spaniard, who dreamed not of the unquench- able fire that consumed the heart which Morad hid under his unrevealing features, nor had he any idea that the Ma- lay was concerned in the fate of the unfortunate one whose injuries were thus requited. With infinite patience had Morad watched his opportu- nity, not to kill his victim only, for that he might have achieved many times before, but to wreak his purpose at such time, and in such manner, as would most nearly cor- respond to the wrong he suffered at Valasco’s hands—to snatch him from some coveted delight, and in its stead give him death. It was now accomplished. ‘ But the dreadful close of this tragic scene was not wit- nessed by the poor, half-frenzied girl, who, at the moment when the Malay resented her entreating cry with such silent but bitter scorn, had fled into her state-room and locked herself in, feeling as if indeed she had been aban- doned to the mercy of human fiends. As the strange, savage cry of the strangler rang through the stillness, Faith fell upon her knees with a piteous ejac- Gomicbooks: (E(@)