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loveliness, and Oda Iseka signaled that their journey was at an end, Byrne laid

Theriere gently upon the flower-starred sward, and with a little, choking gasp

collapsed, unconscious, beside the Frenchman.

Barbara Harding was horror-stricken. She suddenly realized that she had

commenced to feel that this giant of the slums was invulnerable, and with the

thought came another--that to him she had come to look more than to Theriere

for eventual rescue; and now, here she found herself in the center of a savage

island, surrounded as she felt confident she was by skulking murderers, with

only two dying white men and a brown hostage as companions.

And now Oda Iseka took in the situation, and with a grin of triumph raised his

voice in a loud halloo.

"Come quickly, my people!" he cried; "for both the white men are dying," and from

the jungle below them came an answering shout.

We come, Oda Iseka, Lord of Yoka! Your faithful samurai come!"

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