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MAX MAKES IT CLEAR
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head which afterward in Lincoln Park I carried out; and the plan wass to get a suitcase like the suitcase of the Javanese and steal the suitcase of the Javanese by putting that other in its place. So first I came here to the Tonty and, with the clever Mr. McAdams' help I saw what the suitcase in Baraka's room wass like—because I had not seen very plainly the suitcase of the Javanese which I knew this was like."

"I understand, Max," Hereford nodded to the little German's gesture of interrogation.

"Yes, my friendt; and that night there wass in Baraka's rooms a fire. All the time, my friendt, I had been thinking I was rather shmart; but now I proved that I wass not shmart but wass thinking too much about the monkey. It wass not until after many hours