Apparently Holt had not shipped a bomb. While we were opening his trunk at the warehouse the night before, the government was issuing from Washington a wireless bulletin to all ships at sea, warning them to search the cargo thoroughly for a bomb. One by one the vessels which had sailed during the past week reported that they had investigated with no result, and as these reports came in we began to rest easier in our minds. Yet he had so persistently refused to tell us of the dynamite “until Wednesday” that we could not ignore the prophecy he had made to his wife--“With God’s help, a ship that sailed from New York July 3 will sink on July 7.” At noon, of Wednesday, July 7, an explosion occurred in the hold of the steamship _Minnehaha_, in mid-ocean, so strong as to blow out a section of the upper decks. The _Minnehaha_ had left New York on July 3. Happily there was no loss of life, and she reached port safely. Two and two make four, but we must not add them for a moment. Holt--or Muenter, as he was fully and finally identified--may have placed a bomb in the _Minnehaha_. His promise may have been valid, but there is another possible origin for that explosion, namely, the activities of Paul Koenig’s little group. He may have placed a bomb on the _Minnehaha_ which was exploded by a bomb placed there by another. He may have placed a bomb on quite another ship--which did not explode, and which may have traveled harmless to its consignee in England. That consignee may have been fictitious, or he may have been an accomplice; if an accomplice he may have been German. We must not add two and two until we have gathered up the loose threads as they were gathered up during those last active days, and begin to sort them out.