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Indubitably this was a mute such as is sometimes attached to the harêms of great Eastern houses to this day; and even if I had known nothing of the functions of such a servitor, the fact that he carried something in his left hand would have enlightened me. It was a strangling-cord! I smiled grimly.
Then Smith was down, prone upon the crazy planking, with the ape-like figure of the Chinaman perched between his shoulders bending forward the wicked yellow fingers at work, tightening tightening tightening the strangling-cord! Uttering a loud cry of horror, I went racing along the gangway which projected actually over the moving Thames waters, and gained the wharf.
"The light! The light!" I cried. Guthrie ran and turned on the light. Nayland Smith, his eyes starting from his head, his face swollen, lay plucking at a silken cord which showed tight about his throat. "It was a Thug!" screamed Guthrie. "Get the rope off! He's choking!" My hands a-twitch, I seized the strangling-cord. "A knife! Quick!" I cried. "I have lost mine!"
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