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THE SURAKARTA
witnessed by a second suitcase overturned on the floor in front of it; the floor was littered with strips of torn paper, and everything in the room seemed to have been swept violently from its position, except indeed the box that had held the Surakarta. The box still occupied what was obviously its original position on the floor, halfway between the north wall and the bed.
"You have not occupied this room, then, since last night?" McAdams asked Baraka.
"By request of the police everything has been left as it was," the envoy answered. "Yes, everything; I have changed nothing."
McAdams nodded his satisfaction and commenced with assurance his closer scrutiny.
He opened and inspected the doors of the clothes-closet and bathroom; he examined
