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THE SURAKARTA
"Which would you eliminate?" Max demanded.
"The shots," McAdams returned somewhat pompously, seeing that he had Hereford's attention. "It is perfectly plain that if there had been anybody in the room at the time Baraka fired his shots that person could not have got out afterward. Nevertheless, there had been at some time somebody in the room, for the emerald was stolen."
"There iss also the blood," Max offered.
"Not more blood," said McAdams, "than might have been shed by someone who had accidentally hurt himself in the dark against one of the sharp corners of the box."
"What do you think of that, Max?" Hereford inquired smiling.
"It abbears to me," Max Schimmel replied, staring at McAdams in amazement,
