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"Oh, of course, they show the position in which the bones were lying"

"Exactly The ar, fully extended, with the dorsal side upper re-patches that the hand had been separated from the ar very reazed at my sketches, amazed at the rapidity hich he had reconstructed the lis of the individual bones

"I don't quite see how you arrived at it, though," I said

"Well, look at your drawings The egg-patches are on the dorsal surface of the scapula, the humerus, and the bones of the fore-arm But here you have shown six of the bones of the hand: two es; and they all have egg-patches on the pal palm upwards"

"But the hand may have been pronated"

"If you mean pronated in relation to the ar-patches shows clearly that the bones of the ar in the position of supination Thus the dorsal surface of the arm and the palmar surface of the hand respectively were upper as the hand is attached to the ar in the pond some tiaments had decayed, and if it had been separated after the decay of the soft parts, the bones would have been thrown into disorder But the egg-patches are all on the pal that the bones were still in their normal relative positions No, Berkeley, that hand was thrown into the pond separately from the arm"

"But why should it have been?" I asked

"Ah, there is a very pretty little problem for you to consider And, meantime, let me tell you that your expedition has been a brilliant success You are an excellent observer Your only fault is that when you have noted certain facts you don't seenificance--which is merely a matter of inexperience As to the facts that you have collected, several of thelad you are satisfied," said I, "though I don't see that I have discovered s; and they don't seem to have advanced matters very much"

"A definite fact, Berkeley, is a definite asset Perhaps we may presently find a little space in our Chinese puzzle which this fact of the detached hand will just drop into But, tell estive about those bones--as to their number and condition, for instance?"