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Updated: May 13, 2025
In another moment he was hurried along the deck into the cabin, and half a dozen "braves" stood guard at the door to prevent intrusion, whilst the gag was removed, and the victim of the Viceroy's vengeance was urged to eat. Whether he did so or not was never known, for half an hour afterwards he was removed to one of the state-rooms, where he was closely guarded by Kwang's cutthroats.
He stopped and sat suddenly erect. "Jim!" he cried. "Do you remember the night we took old Kwang's girl away from the river rats in Tien-Tsin?" "Vellee well," answered the Chinaman. His face was expressionless; he concealed the joy that this mood of his master aroused in his thin breast.
Before this the Volage and Hyacinth, while lying in Canton River, had a sharp engagement with a fleet of war-junks, under the Chinese Admiral Kwang. Gallantly as Kwang behaved, in a short time one of his junks blew up, three sank, several were shattered and deserted by their crews, and the remainder fled in the greatest confusion, Kwang's junk being in a sinking condition.
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