{"product_id":"2940013762381","title":"The Land of Hidden Men (Jungle Girl)","description":"\"My Lord, I may go no farther,\" said the Cambodian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe young white man turned in astonishment upon his native guide. Behind\u003cbr\u003ethem lay the partially cleared trail along which they had come. It was\u003cbr\u003eovergrown with tall grass that concealed the tree-stumps that had been\u003cbr\u003eleft behind the axes of the road-builders. Before them lay a ravine, at\u003cbr\u003ethe near edge of which the trail ended. Beyond the ravine was the\u003cbr\u003eprimitive jungle untouched by man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Why, we haven't even started yet!\" exclaimed the white man. \"You cannot\u003cbr\u003eturn back now. What do you suppose I hired you for?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I promised to take my lord to the jungle,\" replied the Cambodian.\u003cbr\u003e\"There it is. I did not promise to enter it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGordon King lighted a cigarette. \"Let's talk this thing over, my\u003cbr\u003efriend,\" he said. \"It is yet early morning. We can get into the jungle\u003cbr\u003eas far as I care to go and out again before sundown.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Cambodian shook his head. \"I will wait for you here, my lord,\" he\u003cbr\u003esaid; \"but I may not enter the jungle, and if you are wise you will\u003cbr\u003enot.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Why?\" demanded King.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There are wild elephants, my lord, and tigers,\" replied the Cambodian,\u003cbr\u003e\"and panthers which hunt by day as well as by night.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Why do you suppose we brought two rifles?\" demanded the white. \"At\u003cbr\u003eKompong-Thom they told me you were a good shot and a brave man. You knew\u003cbr\u003ethat we should have no need for rifles up to this point. No, sir, you\u003cbr\u003ehave lost your nerve at the last minute, and I do not believe that it is\u003cbr\u003ebecause of tigers or wild elephants.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There are other things deep in the jungle, my lord, that no man may\u003cbr\u003elook upon and live.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What, for example?\" demanded King.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The ghosts of my ancestors,\" answered the Cambodian, \"the Khmers who\u003cbr\u003edwelt here in great cities ages ago. Within the dark shadows of the\u003cbr\u003ejungle the ruins of their cities still stand, and down the dark aisles\u003cbr\u003eof the forest pass the ancient kings and warriors and little sad-faced\u003cbr\u003equeens on ghostly elephants. Fleeing always from the horrible fate that\u003cbr\u003eovertook them in life, they pass for ever down the corridors of the\u003cbr\u003ejungle, and with them are the millions of the ghostly dead that once\u003cbr\u003ewere their subjects. We might escape My Lord the Tiger and the wild\u003cbr\u003eelephants, but no man may look upon the ghosts of the dead Khmers and\u003cbr\u003elive.\"","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145903653104,"sku":"2940013762381","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013762381_p0.jpg?v=1763598692","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013762381","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}