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THE SURAKARTA
"What did she do then?"
"She told Baraka that she could not actually show him the emerald, but that she knew where it was—it was in a perfectly safe place—and she could not get possession of it herself until he had left town and gone back to Java."
"Baraka's answer to that?"
"It was exactly the same as he had answered before—that he did not believe her, and could do nothing but obey the instructions of the Soesoehoenan. He said he would leave only when he himself had regained the emerald and had presented it to her with the ceremonies which he had been instructed to carry out."
"Was that all?"
"Yes; she left then a good deal more agitated than when she had come. Now, Mr.
