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the time. He"—he again pointed to Hereford—"was in the room after suite already were at the only door to go out; but when the light was turned on he was not here. No one was in the clothes-closet; no one in the bathroom; no one in or under the bed. We took up even the carpet to look. The drops of blood, too, do not lead to any door—only to the wall."
"But how could he go through the wall—or do you doubt the wall?" McAdams demanded.
"No, I do not doubt the wall," the Javanese replied. "I have tried it. I know it is there. But"—he fixed upon Hereford a suddenly superstitious look in which terror and anger seemed equally mingled—"there has been brought to my country from other lands the X-ray, by which men see the bones
