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"Your star above mine," said Fu-Manchu, his calm unruffled. "I place myself in your hands, Sir Baldwin." Assisted by his unemotional compatriot, Fu-Manchu discarded the yellow robe, revealing himself in a white singlet in all his gaunt ugliness, and extended his frame upon the operating-table. Li-King-Su ignited the large lamp over the head of the table, and from his case took out a trephine.
I said dully; "do as you wish" and cared not to what I had agreed. Plunging his hand beneath his white overall, the Chinaman who had been referred to as Li-King-Su calmly produced a pack of cards, unemotionally shuffled them and extended the pack to me. I shook my head grimly, for my hands were tied.
Petrie" again turning to me "that my constitution is inured to the use of opium. You will make due allowance for this. Mr. Li-King-Su, a graduate of Canton, will act as dresser." He turned laboriously to Zarmi. She clapped her hands and held the curtain aside.
"My God!" whispered Frazer, in the darkness, "quick! quick! lights! a match! a candle! something, anything!" There came a faint click, and a beam of white light was directed, steadily, upon the patient's skull. Li-King-Su unmoved held an electric torch in his hand!
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