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hotel when you went to your room a little before eleven."
"Then" Annis checked himself.
"You mean, then I do not know—know definitely, that is—anything of what you may have done between eleven o'clock that night and the next morning, when Lund met you again. That is so. Neither do I know definitely what you may have done last night between twelve o'clock midnight and now; for Lund in some way got himself arrested last night, and, as I myself have been under very natural suspicion by the police for complicity in the disappearance of the emerald, they refused my telephone request this morning for a conversation with him. You will find, however, that what I do know is sufficient to convince any one what has become of the Surakarta."
