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Updated: May 24, 2025
At the last moment the native Sultan of Batjan embarks for his island home, after commercial negotiations in Ternate, for this native prince, a keen-faced man in European dress and scarlet turban, trades largely in damar, the basis of his wealth.
"I am taking a brief rest cure," I replied; "and as I am given to understand that Friar's Park is of much historical interest, I had purposed seeking permission to look over the place and if possible to take a few photographs." Dr. Damar Greefe inclined his head gravely. "A former monastic house, Mr. Addison," he replied. "And as you say, of great archæological interest.
In short, he had an idea that the London headquarters of the wanted man, whom we had now definitely invested with the personality of Dr. Damar Greefe, was somewhere within my immediate neighborhood! It was a startling conclusion and one which rested, as I thought, upon somewhat slender premises; but nevertheless I found it disquieting.
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