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that she wanted Baraka to believe she had it."
"But she has not got it," Hereford declared, with certainty.
"No; and Baraka knew she didn't have it and told her so. These Orientals, I guess, know something about lying themselves. Baraka didn't tell her outright that she was not telling the truth, but he let her know plainly enough that he did not believe her."
"And was not going away?"
"Yes; that he certainly was not going until she—or somebody else—had shown him the emerald, and he had seen it, according to his instructions, safely in her hands."
Hereford got up and moved about the room, as though the movement might help his thought in the perplexity he felt. He turned suddenly back to McAdams.
