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while they are still within the body; and the wireless, by which men can talk to men across a thousand miles of sea. How do I know what else have here?"
McAdams grunted and turned abruptly to his more careful examination of the box.
He inspected closely the ordinary brown wrapping paper scattered in torn strips round the box and a piece of stout string that lay among them.
"The paper was wrapped round the box, I understand?" he questioned.
"Since San Francisco," Baraka assented. "In Java we had guards to keep away the people and on the steamer the box is in my stateroom; but in San Francisco crowds gather—so strange a sight to them, Javanese carrying such a box. We can hardly pass through the people. That night I wrap
