HEREFORD INTERVIEWS ANNIS
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Surakarta was stolen, you occupied that room at the Hotel Tonty from a quarter past eleven in the evening until four o'clock in the morning—as Lund ascertained afterward from the hotel clerk. You went to your room in this hotel after bidding Lund good night; you waited in this room between twenty minutes and half an hour; you went from here to the Hotel Tonty and, after spending not quite five hours there, you were back here in this room before daylight. Doesn't it seem to you that a somewhat convincing inference might be drawn—say, by the police—from that?"
Annis had reseated himself, closely studying Hereford from under his bleached brows.
"Go on," he said. "I would rather you finished."
"Very well. Your statement to me—at
