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7 THE BULL WHIP
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As von Horn and Virginia Maxon walked slowly beneath the dense1 shadows of the jungle he again renewed his suit. It would please him more to have the girl accompany him voluntarily than to be compelled to take her by force, but take her he would one way or another, and that, this very night, for all the plans were made and already under way.
"I cannot do it, Doctor von Horn," she had said. "No matter how much danger I may be in here I cannot desert my father on this lonely isle2 with only savage3 lascars and the terrible monsters of his own creation surrounding him. Why, it would be little short of murder for us to do such a thing. I cannot see how you, his most trusted lieutenant4, can even give an instant's consideration to the idea.
"And now that you insist that his mind is sorely affected5, it is only an added reason why I must remain with him to protect him so far as I am able, from himself and his enemies."
"It is because I love you so, Virginia," he hastened to urge in extenuation7 of his suggested disloyalty. "I cannot see you sacrificed to his horrible mania8. You do not realize the imminence9 of your peril10. Tomorrow Number Thirteen was to have come to live beneath the same roof with you. You recall Number One whom the stranger killed as the thing was bearing you away through the jungle? Can you imagine sleeping in the same house with such a soulless thing? Eating your three meals a day at the same table with it? And knowing all the time that in a few short weeks at the most you were
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cowardice
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watchfulness
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警惕,留心; 警觉(性) | |
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slay
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