Tales of the Malayan Coast : From Penang to the Philippines
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Her hands hung hstlessly by her side, and only for the color that came and went beneath the rouge of her brown cheeks, she might have been dead to this last sacred act of their marriage vows. " Anak ! " he said slowly, drawing closer to her side. " Anak, I will be a true husband to you. You shall be my only wife — " He paused, expecting some response, but she only gazed stolidly up at the smoke- begrimed attap of the roof. "Anak — " he repeated, and then a shud- der passed through him, and his ...eyes lit up with a wild, frenzied gleam. A moment he paused irresolute, and then with a spring he grasped the golden handle of his kris, and with one bound was across the floor, and on the sand below among the revellers. 126 Tales of the Malayan Coast For an instant the snake-like blade of the kris shone dully in the firelight above his head, and then with a yell that echoed far out among the palms, it descended straight into the heart of the nearest Malay. The hot life-blood spurted out over his hand and naked arm, and dyed the creamy silk of his wedding baju a dark red.
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