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MAX SCHIMMEL EXPLAINS
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and there wass two suitcases, which a confederate among Baraka's suite could carry in and out.

"And when, at the boarding house, I saw the Javanese upon the stairs, he also had in his hand a suitcase.

"So I thought: 'That iss it; he shall be in a suitcase, which will not be noticed—only when I pass the customs officials shall there be clothes in that suitcase; for then I shall carry him wrapped in my cabaya—my coat, that iss."

"In the suitcase!" the police captain now demanded. "He—your pupil—the disappearing one! What do you mean?"

"Here, in this suitcase!" Max replied calmly. "Holding your watch now—has been taught him to take and hold whatefer iss in the box, efen when shot at with