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WE REACH AUSTRALIA, AND THE RESULT.
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Wetherell's face was piteous to see.

"My God!" he cried in despair. "If that is so then I am ruined. This is Nikola's revenge."

Then he uttered a curious little sigh, moved a step forward and fell in a dead faint upon the floor.