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The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu | Sax Rohmer | |
The Cross Bar |
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I peered at the crossbar in my hand, then looked hard at the girl beside me. I missed something of the old fire of her nature; she was very subdued, tonight. "Thank you, Karamaneh," I said, softly. She suppressed a little cry as I spoke her name, and drew back into the shadows. "I believe you are my friend," I said, "but I cannot understand. Won't you help me to understand?" I took her unresisting hand, and drew her toward me. My very soul seemed to thrill at the contact of her lithe body . . . She was trembling wildly and seemed to be trying to speak, but although her lips framed the words no sound followed. Suddenly comprehension came to me. I looked down into the street, hitherto deserted . . . and into the upturned face of Fu-Manchu. Wearing a heavy fur-collared coat, and with his yellow, malignant countenance grotesquely horrible beneath the shade of a large tweed motor cap, he stood motionless, looking up at me. That he had seen me, I could not doubt; but had he seen my companion? In a choking whisper Karamaneh answered my unspoken question. "He has not seen me! I have done much for you; do in return a small thing for me. Save my life!" She dragged me back from the window and fled across the room to the weird laboratory where I had lain captive. Throwing herself upon the divan, she held out her white wrists and glanced significantly at the manacles. "Lock them upon me!" she said, rapidly. "Quick! quick!" |
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