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taking in a brown man; but I thought: He is only a lodger, not a boarder—so nobody will object."
"It iss because he iss brown that they object?" Max inquired; for he had been not at all surprised, on his visit in the afternoon, to learn of McAdams' confusion of "Japanese" with "Javanese" which he felt might well have occurred before the report had reached McAdams.
"They—yes. For me I object because first he puts on the door an extra lock, so that my key will not open it; and then he gets meals for himself in his room, I suspect—though that is against the rules—bringing in food secretly, I think, in his valise. All day he stays in the room, and because of that the room cannot be cleaned."
