"And had he, Mr. Preston, but seen or recalled the little vertical and horizontal wires of the 'wireless' aerials which hummed over his head as he was leaving the Bahia after paying the stupid steward to keep the drunk and violent American locked in his cabin, he could have got away even with this last taunt to our police; and he would have had his safe two weeks in which to leave England and seek cover. But as it is now, within half an hour the police in the second-class carriages ahead of us must have him!"
"In half an hour?"
"When we reach Polporru, Mr. Preston, where there is the first large land 'wireless' station upon the Cornish coast."
"Polporru upon the Cornish coast—where we are to stop?" the girl interrupted.
"Ah; you are to stop there, Mrs. Varris? And you, Mr. Preston?"
"We have stopped there for at least a few days every time we have come to England, Mr. Dunneston," the girl replied.
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