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THE SURAKARTA
"Something," this smaller man asserted, "has been overlooked."
"Not if you mean in the room," said McAdams, laying down his paper.
Both turned and stared at McAdams appraisingly, as though resenting his intrusion.
"Then you have seen the room?" the first speaker demanded, satisfied by his inspection.
"I am sufficiently acquainted with the room," said McAdams guardedly, "to be certain that the newspaper accounts are correct and that there was no means of exit."
"However, I was not referring just now to the room but to the persons implicated."
"What persons?" McAdams asked.
"Whom do the police now suspect?"
"They find it impossible, I believe, to
