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men of the police, among whom Hereford could see Baraka, who was apparently as suspicious and bewildered as his attendants.
This group was assembled, curious and exclaiming about two tables in the middle of the room. Upon one of these the strange Java steel box that had contained the emerald had been placed. On the other one, as Hereford and his ward now saw, stood another box of precisely the same design, the same appearance.
