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[[underlined]]Chapter II. [[/underlined]]  34.

promise not to disturb the skull further until I could see General Chin and return to the site---a matter which I hoped would not required more than two or three days at most.  In order to protect the skull from prowlers, I placed over it some pieces of board, upon which I heaped loose earth.
     Then, once more accompanied by our military escort, my companions and I returned to the railway station and took the late afternoon train to Cheng Chou, expecting to see the general on the morrow.

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