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"!" the American pointed.

Far off to starboard the extreme point of Cornwall slid into the sea.

"We've lost the land now for six days!"

The Englishman smiled seriously, then indicated the long, vertical streaks strung from the masts overhead.

"Not for a few hundred miles yet!" he reminded. "The 'wireless'!" he almost exclaimed.

He watched the American carefully for a moment, as he turned sidewise to the ship's rail.

"For the 'wireless,' Mr. Preston," he continued warningly, "cannot only bring back to land and make available there evidence from a ship at sea, but it can also carry 204