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he exclaimed , in sudden enlightenment , `` I see it all , clear as day . '' What Ralph saw , all hands in the cab soon realized within the ensuing ten minutes . When they had aroused Fogg , there followed animated theory , discovery and conviction . Not one of them doubted but that some enemy had sneaked aboard of the locomotive while it was sidetracked at noon at Riverton and had put some drug in the jar of coffee . They found a suspicious dark sediment at the bottom of the jar . `` Black Hands -- mark it down , '' observed Fogg . `` Whoever did it , also placed those flasks of liquor in my bunker .