The other picked up the case and proceeded to examine its contents.
A number of sheets of paper covered with writing came out, and that was all.
Ed did not need to understand Chinese to know how disgusted these two yellow scamps were.
They gabbled on.
One was about to throw the case overboard, but the other prevented him.
This was the man with the revolver—he had put up his weapon now.
"Get up," he said to Ed.
"Can't," was the reply.
The Chinaman soon settled that.
Clutching the naked boy by the hair, he lifted him upon the seat and then thrust the papers upon him.