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By reason of the little man's excited antics and high-pitched threats and wailings, we were very soon the centre of a pushing, inquisitive throng; faces peered at me, fists were shaken and voices reviled me, in especial one, that of an evil-faced man whose narrow eyes seemed vaguely familiar.
EAGER to witness the agony of the son of the powerful Naya of Mo, the crowd of evil-faced men in silken robes who surrounded their brutal chief watched with lively anticipation the preparations that were in a few moments in active progress.
In the forefront Ferdinand Ramero's tall form, towering above the small statured evil-faced Mexican band he was leading, was outlined against the dust-cloud following them, and I caught the glint of light on his drawn revolver. "Ride! Ride like the devil!" Beverly shouted. At the same time he and the Hopi girl whirled out and, letting us pass, fell in as a rear guard between us and our pursuers.
At this an evil-faced man in blue struck him brutally upon the head with his club, then upon the shoulders, as if to silence his groans. The boy flung up his manacled hands to shield himself, and the light from a street lamp showed blood flowing where the chains had cut.
"He is worse," said Jean, without lowering his voice. "Sometimes I can only keep him here by force. He thinks the whole island is looking for him he never sleeps." Jean was interrupted by the evil-faced boy, who had risen, and was peering down towards the gates of the defile. "There is a carriage on the road," he said. They all listened.
At eleven o'clock on the morning of a bitterly cold Friday in January a grim, sullen group of men, evil-faced fellows whose eyes were heavy with dread, and whose lips hung limp with dejection, crowded around the stove in a squalid, ill-smelling basement room.
"An' your langwidge is that bad I'll need to git around a Bible-class ag'in to disinfect my ears." "You sure will," agreed Toby, with one of his fatuous grins. "I never see any feller who needed disinfectin' more." Then he turned upon the evil-faced choreman and added his morsel of admonition.
I cared not where I went, and hoped that the novelty of the sea voyage might benefit me. "The captain was an Italian named Cigole, a low-browed, evil-faced villain. The mate was named Clark. There were three Lascars, who formed the small crew. Potts came with me, and also an old servant of mine, a Malay; whose life I had saved years before. His name was Uracao.
In a few minutes the closely-set arbutus bushes above the road were pushed aside and a boy came out an evil-faced youth with a loose mouth. "It is Jean of the Evil Eye who has sent me," he said glibly, with an eye on the abbe's hands in case there should be a knife. "He is up there with a broken leg. He has with him the old man." "The old man?" repeated the abbe, interrogatively.
But in case you should refuse to do your lawful office, it may be well for you to remember that I have other instruments that mayhap will please you less." He threw open a door suddenly, and we looked into an underground hall, where a dozen men were carousing Duke Casimir's Hussars of Death, black-browed, evil-faced, slack-jowled villains every man of them, cruel and sensual.
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