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which took him no further from the Tonty, he got out at a drug store and again called the stenographer.
"The Javanese kept the same suite today," the girl reported. "Baraka used his secretary's room with him; and there was someone in the rooms constantly until six o'clock tonight. At six, the hotel management gave them another suite, which was vacated then."
"Had anything been disturbed in the rooms up to that time?"
"No, sir. They have been left for the insurance appraiser, who will be there tomorrow morning."
"That's all, then."
He leaped into the cab again and ordered the driver to take him to the bar entrance of the Tonty. The manner of the thief's en-
