Wide-eyed and piteous she met his glance. She had seen that
night the Look in his eyes. She had saved his life, and there
was much, so much, that she wanted to tell him. A thousand
yearnings, inexplicable, hitherto unknown, deep mysteries of her
soul, looked out of those great eyes.
"Don't think," he said tensely, "that I was deceived. I saw the
trick with the rose! You are as guilty as your villainous lover!
Murderess!"
He went out and closed the door. The flame-coloured cloak slowly
slipped from Zahara's shoulders, and the veils, like falling
petals, began to drop gently one by one upon the blood-stained
carpet.
THE HAND OF THE MANDARIN QUONG
I
THE SHADOW ON THE CURTAIN
"Singapore is by no means herself again," declared Jennings,
looking about the lounge of the Hotel de l'Europe. "Don't you
agree, Knox?"
Burton fixed his lazy stare upon the speaker.
"Don't blame poor old Singapore," he said. "There is no spot in
this battered world that I have succeeded in discovering which is
not changed for the worse."
Dr. Matheson flicked ash from his cigar and smiled in that
peculiarly happy manner which characterizes a certain American
type and which lent a boyish charm to his personality.
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