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THE SURAKARTA
into a safe-deposit box before you could carry out your plan to get hold of it; and there is also the doubt—which in itself is somewhat suspicious—whether your real name is Annis or Du Brock."
Annis smiled.
"You have so much other information," he said blandly, "that I do not mind telling you that I have used the name Du Brock only once in Chicago. My object then, as I told Lund at the time, was merely to prevent my becoming involved in the matter of the Surakarta, with which I said I had no connection except my natural curiosity. This was in the bar of the Tonty, Mr. Hereford, at the time I interviewed your brilliant aide Mr. McAdams."
"Yes, to find out from him whether, under your name of Annis, you had yet been sus-
