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The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé by Harry Houdini
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strange incident occurred in connection with
their deaths. Just before they were to sail
from Shanghai on the P. & O. steamer Khiva
for Hong Kong, Yamadeva and Kellar visited
the bowling alley of The Hermitage, a pleasure
resort on the Bubbling Well Road. They were
watching a husky sea captain, who was using
a huge ball and making a ``double spare'' at
every roll, when Yamadeva suddenly remarked,
``I can handle one as heavy as that big
loafer can.'' Suiting the action to the word,
he seized one of the largest balls and drove
it down the alley with all his might; but he
had misjudged his own strength, and he paid
for the foolhardy act with his life, for he had
no sooner delivered the ball than he grasped
his side and moaned with pain. He had hardly
sufficient strength to get back to the ship,
where he went immediately to bed and died
shortly afterward. An examination showed
that he had ruptured an artery.

Kellar and Ling Look had much difficulty
in persuading the captain to take the body to
Hong Kong, but he finally consented. On the
way down the Yang Tse Kiang River, Look
was greatly depressed; but all at once he
became strangely excited, and said that his
brother was not dead, for he had just heard
the peculiar whistle with which they had always
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