260
THE SURAKARTA
"Convince them, you mean, that I took it?"
"Yes."
"Perhaps you will begin by convincing me that you could convince them."
"I shall be glad to; for that is why I came here. In the first place, you have had and paid for, since the evening of October eleventh, when you reached Chicago, rooms in two hotels. This room where we are now you have occupied days and the greater portion, though not all, of every night. The other room, which you have occupied only twice or at most three times—and then only for a few hours at night—is on the ninth floor of the Hotel Tonty on the same side of the building as the rooms occupied by the Javanese, though not directly under them. On the night of October twelfth, when the
