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ability to get all the information needed in his one visit, to have supplemented the information to be gained in that way by convincing the Soesoehoenan, through misuse of Baraka's name, that Baraka was having trouble in opening the box and needed further instructions by cable?"
McAdams continued to glare at them with a resentfulness which showed the professional impossibility of his suspecting Hereford so long as he was in Hereford's pay.
"You gentlemen are acquainted with Mr. Hereford—either of you?" he demanded belligerently.
"We have not that pleasure," Du Brock answered.
"Then perhaps you will tell me what your interest may be in making such ridiculous
