HEREFORD INTERVIEWS ANNIS
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Then he took from his pocket, as though he expected to need them for reference, a small packet of telegrams and other papers.
"On the morning of October twelfth, Mr. Annis," he commenced, "when you came to my office to inform me—so gratuitously as to rouse at once my suspicions regarding yourself—of the very peculiar situation between my ward and a native ruler of Java called the Soesoehoenan of Surakarta, and concerning"
"Concerning the emerald called the Surakarta—yes. I have noted in the papers, Mr. Hereford, that you, as trustee, have taken a singularly effective method of preventing its being presented."
Hereford looked fixedly at Annis before he went on.
"On that visit, Mr. Annis, you stated,
