The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu |
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Abel Slattin Arthur Stringer Azîz began beneath Berta Ruck beside breath Burke cane chair China Chinaman Chinese close clutched corner Cragmire Tower creature cried dacoit darkness Doctor door doorway doubt dreadful elms Eltham eyes face faint fear feet fingers floor Forsyth Fu-Manchu Gables gate gaze girl glanced gleaming grasped grip hand head heard hour Inspector Weymouth Jeffery Farnol Kâra Kâramanèh knew lamp leaped light looked manèh Mary Roberts Rinehart mulatto mysterious Nayland Smith never night peering Petrie Phillips Oppenheim pistol rapped Smith replied returned Rex Beach Roon Sax Rohmer Scotland Yard seemed servants shadow shoulder silence snapped Smith sort sound stairs stared stood strange street Talbot Mundy thing thought threw throat to-night trap turned uttered voice walked watching Weymouth whilst whispered Smith window wonder words yards yellow
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Page 4 - Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green. Invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect, with all the resources, if you will, of a wealthy government— which, however, already has denied all knowledge of his existence. Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril...