from the room, somehow and for some non-understandable reason had not been able to take the emerald with him. Incredible as the supposition seemed, still it was the only one which covered the conditions. Annis knew that; for that Annis had run the risks he had since run; for that he had had the fire started in the Javanese rooms; for that, undoubtedly, Annis was to enter the rooms, himself, now that they were vacated—because he knew the Surakarta was left there!
Reaching the Tonty, Hereford paid the driver off without delay. He entered the hotel through the bar,where his face was unknown, and, without approaching the elevators, ascended the stairs to the tenth floor. On the stairs, deserted at this hour, he met no one; as he had apparently escaped observation since leaving his apartment that morn-
