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Updated: May 31, 2025
You don't surely think I would conspire to kill" her voice trembled "my father, to get possession of this silver box that means nothing to me!" Marie laughed cynically. "Ma foi," she cried, "when one is a spy, one will stop at nothing! But tiens, here is Madame!" Nur-el-Din picked her way carefully down the steps, the yellow-faced man behind her. He had a pistol in his hand.
A yellow-faced Belgian, with white sun helmet and white umbrella, presently came off in the doctor's boat, and announced himself as the health officer of the port, and put the usual questions. Rabeira lied pleasantly and glibly.
Now, I grew suspicious, fearing lest some harm had come to Leo, though how to discover the truth I knew not. In my anxiety I tried to convey a note to him, written upon a leaf of a water-gained pocket-book, but the yellow-faced servant refused to touch it, and Simbri said drily that he would have naught to do with writings which he could not read.
One critic asserts that there is no common action uniting the figures, and that the faces are so different in complexion one yellow-faced boy appearing either jaundiced or burnt by a tropical sun, that the family might have lived in different climates. This is the story of the picture.
"But someone used the emergency cord, and stopped the train." "Greba has no recollection of having done so." "Hm! Of course, no yellow-faced man was on the train. When did you awake?" "I was aroused by the guard, but only when he had repeatedly shaken me." "Upon reaching Great Yarmouth you immediately called up Scotland Yard? You acted very wisely, sir. How long were you in China?" Mr.
It was Yellow Handkerchief, the Chinaman whom we had arrested for illegal shrimp-fishing the year before, and who, at that time, had nearly sunk the Reindeer, as he had nearly sunk it now by violating the rules of navigation. "What d'ye mean, you yellow-faced heathen, lying here in a fairway without a horn a-going?" Charley cried hotly. "Mean?" Neil calmly answered.
As the tyres of the car gritted on the gravel of the drive, the office door was flung open and the yellow-faced man ran out, brandishing a big revolver. "Stop!" he shouted and levelled his weapon. The car seemed to leap forward and took the sharp turn on two wheels just as the man fired. The bullet struck the wall of the house and sent up a shower of plaster.
Yesterday, returning from London with your daughter, you were both drugged in some way and, occupying a compartment to yourselves, you both slept. Your daughter awoke, and saw someone else in the carriage a yellow-faced man who held a case of instruments in his hands." "Yes; I was, of course, unable to enter into particulars over the telephone. The man was standing by one of the windows.
Then one by one, as they met the conditions of their sentence, or made up their deficiencies in work, they slipped quietly away, and ere the old yellow-faced clock solemnly struck the hour of four, Bert was alone with the grim and silent master. He had not been idle during that hour.
Pitiable was it to behold the yellow-faced puppies, talking through their noses—and often without noses—stuffed with brochures and newspapers of various sorts, and proclaiming new faiths, laws, and toilets. That rabble had a mighty power over minds, for when the Lord God sends punishment on a nation he first deprives its citizens of reason.
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