loss of the emerald, the basket shall be carried out again—and the emerald will be in it.'"
Baraka exclaimed volubly. The police captain watched Max with narrowing eyes; Hereford and Lorine bent forward.
"Yes? But opserve now, my friendts. Before I can do this that I have planned I find that the emerald iss to be taken to America. Now I must go along until the chance comes to get the emerald; but if I carry my pupil in the basket then eferybody will say: 'What haf you got in the basket?' So now what shall I do? When I had got as far as that, mine friendts, I thought: 'What wass there in the room at the hotel in which one—even a disappearing one—could haf been?' There wass in the room the writing desk, and the bed, and the table, which belonged there;
