THE ROOM AT THE TONTY
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to get your own statement of what happened here last night."
"Ah! To see the room!" Baraka mocked. "And to ask for a statement! Of what use is a statement, since this one can tell you better than I what happened here?" He pointed to Hereford.
He walked nervously about, pressing his hands together.
"Obtain the key!" he suddenly directed one of the Javanese who had followed the three as though keeping guard over them; and when it was brought Baraka himself crossed the room to a locked door and flung it open.
"Enter!" he commanded.
The room was dark as Hereford and his two companions entered. They could distinguish vaguely in it objects disarranged in
