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ing it, since she had only to wait a few hours for it to be presented to her; and Mr. Hereford, who could not have stolen it if he had wished. With so capricious a young lady as Miss Regan, whom we may imagine to be somewhat more in love with the emerald than with the Soesoehoenan, no doubt some very ingenious theories may be manufactured to show that she had a hand in the disappearance of the stone; but none of those theories are even possible in the circumstances of the case."
"I am quite content to admit that neither Miss Regan nor the Soesoehoenan can have anything to do with it," Du Brock conceded. "And there is no one else whom it is possible to suspect in the case?"
"No one," McAdams admitted; "and at
