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“I found this in his pocket,” said Abbott, holding up a pencil-sized cylinder ires extending fros

“Mercury-fulminate detonator,” said Bell “Where was the man found?”

“Floating past the Battery”

“Could he have drifted across the river from Jersey City to the tip of Manhattan?”

“The currents are unpredictable,” said the coroner’s physician “Between ocean tide and river flux, bodies go every which way, depending upon ebb and flow Do you think he set off the explosion?”

“He looks like he was near it,” Abbott said noncolance at Bell

“Thank you for calling us, Doctor,” said Bell, and walked out

Abbott caught up with him on the sidewalk

“How did the Wrecker recruit a Chinese to his cause?”

Bell said, “We can’t know that until we find out who the man was”

“That’s going to be hard without a face”

“We must find out who he was What are the principal sources of employment for Chinese in New York?”

“The Chinese work rocery stores, and hand-wash laundries, of course”

“This ers and palms were heavily callused,” said Bell, “whichwith a hot, heavy iron”

“That’s a lot of laundries,” said Archie “One in every block of the working districts”