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MAX HAS KEPT OUT OF JAIL
Hereford, when he had sent his ward away, waited anxiously for Max Schimmel to come home. Now, at last, Lorine had hidden nothing from him; he understood her finally; and, understanding her, he saw that the menace of the Surakarta—which it appeared had been before merely a fictitious menace—had become real. He understood that, if Lorine's love for him was not in itself a sufficient argument for her, he could offer no other to change her belief that she was bound in honor to marry the Soesoehoenan, unless the emerald could be recovered.
So Hereford, impatiently pacing Max's
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