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kiss it; to touch devoutly the odd mark on the instep. There came to him a feeling of certainty that his bachelor days were almost over, and his heart leaped with gladness.

"The foot fetish," he murmured to himself. "I can understand its power. Why, I almost worship that mark myself, for it brought me to her side after many strange happenings." He glanced at the last of the Chinese who was being marched away under heavy irons. For a brief moment it seemed that a flash of mutual understanding passed between the blue eyes of the American and the black, mystical eyes of the Oriental fetish-worshiper.

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