doors between these outer rooms were open so that they could not be mistaken. The evidence of the presence of each one is exact, circumstantial and corroborated by all the others, which it could not be unless all were telling the truth or all had conspired together."
"I am satisfied it is true then," Du Brock agreed. Lund also gave his concurrence and asked: "Who is the next one implicated?"
"The others whose names have been connected with the case," McAdams answered, "are, first, the Soesoehoenan who would certainly have done nothing to interfere with a bargain he had been to so much trouble to carry out, and, even if he did, would have been under no necessity to arrange for the stealing of his own emerald; Miss Regan, who was equally under no necessity for steal-
