A GUNSHOT WOUND
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America and is not familiar with American methods and customs. He had, moreover, been subjected during the whole night to the questioning of the police and secret-service officers, before they assured themselves that he himself had had nothing to do with the disappearance of the gem."
"Then they did assure themselves of that?"
"Completely; they are satisfied that neither Baraka nor any member of his suite was concerned in it."
"Then we need not consider that possibility."
"Baraka's visit here was occasioned, as I have said, by his suspicions of me, due to my having seen him open the box. When he saw that between ten o'clock last night, when he showed me the emerald, and nine
