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THE SURAKARTA
Du Brock and Lund looked at one another and nodded as though satisfied.
"We must take up, then, the next who might be suspected," Du Brock observed.
"You have already mentioned them," McAdams replied. "The suspicions of the police fell next—or at least their investigations next concerned—Baraka's attendants individually, in spite of Baraka's protestations that all seven of them are almost fanatically devoted to himself and chosen by him for that reason."
"Baraka's word is not sufficient for that; for he may be mistaken."
"He is absolutely certain also that none of them knew how to open the box."
"Again, his certainty, even on that subject, is not sufficient."
"Also, none of them could have been in
