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MR. McADAMS CONVERSES WITH TWO STRANGERS
Detective McAdams remained at the Tonty to carry on his investigation, after Hereford had left him.
As at six o'clock that night eighteen hours would have passed since the disappearance of the Surakarta, the six o'clock editions of the evening papers—which appeared on the street between two and three in the afternoon—made mention of this fact significantly. Those papers which boasted a socialistic tendency hinted already that the failure of the police was due to the wealth of the persons concerned; otherwise, in their
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