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tions. Then accompanied by Baraka and the captain of police, he made an examination of the windows and the doors into the closet and bathroom to show that all were locked and that entrance to or exit from the room was impossible except through the one doorway before which his audience was gathered.
Finally he turned to the police captain.
"Gif me, please, your watch," Max requested of the officer. "The emerald we no longer haf; but we must haf something which you in particular will most surely know."
The officer handed the watch to him.
"Now please,"—Max turned to Baraka—"the box open again."
Baraka, with the assent of one whose mind already had been made up, concealed the operation of the levers and clicked them
