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THE ROOM AT THE TONTY
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head against this south wall, was the door to the bathroom.

The fourth or east side of the room faced over the street and there were two wide windows in it. McAdams, approaching these windows, saw there was a clear drop below them of one hundred and twenty feet, and that there was neither cornice nor fire escape anywhere in sight below or about them to give access from another window on the same floor, or from the floor above or below.

The disorder of the room was plainly that in which it had been left by the Javanese at the conclusion of their search. The bedding was pulled from the bed; the writing desk, which had stood by the north wall, had been pulled out into the room; and the stand near the west wall, which held a suitcase, had likewise been moved from its place, as was