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THE SURAKARTA
"But going out, you said this afternoon, at night?"
"Each night he goes out, as I said, locking his door; and he returns at different times—sometimes earlier, sometimes later."
"Pretty soon, if I haf rightly understood the time, he ought to be going." Max looked at his watch.
At this instant they heard the lodger's door closed quietly down the hall. Max at once ran out into the hall, but all he was in time to see was the back of a small and agile man who was swiftly descending the stairs. He therefore rid of the landlady as soon as possible. When she had gone he took off his shoes, went quietly down the hall to the second door from his own and carefully examined it. He was convinced by a very brief examination of it that the new lock
