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THE SURAKARTA
changed his place to bring him nearer to Max Schimmel. He glanced now significantly toward his men, who, Hereford saw, returned his look with nods of understanding.
"You must explain this—fully and satisfactorily, Schimmel," the officer warned meaningly.
But whatever had been Max's previous reasons for uneasiness, they seemed now wholly to have disappeared.
"Efen when I haf been to so much trouble to find out how the Surakarta wass stolen," he said to Hereford, "and when I am ready to explain it, they would like to arrest me and make me gif my explanation from behind their bars. But I ask only, Mr. Bolice Office, that my friendts be allowed to hear me too."
