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THE SURAKARTA
and the Javanese in one wild, pushing, exclaiming mass hurled themselves upon him. Somewhere among the figures crowding into the room, it seemed to Hereford's dizzy senses, was his ward, Lorine. He heard her voice cry out, when first she caught sight of him.
Later, but after how much time had passed he could not tell, he came to himself and saw Max Schimmel close beside him. He drew the little German nearer.
"Max," he whispered, "it is in the room—the emerald is in the room from which they thought it was taken, the room where you found me!"
With effort he moved his hand to direct Max to slip away and get it.
But Max shook his head.
"My friendt, it iss an hour now since you
