A MYSTERY FOR THE POLICE
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"Yles."
"Go out and burchase gopies for me of all this morning's bapers," said Max.
He then finished the few succeeding words of the surprising account:
"Here, therefore, is the apparently insoluble problem which confronts the police: What became of the man who took the emerald? He did not go out through the wall, for a man cannot step through a wall of solid brick; but, aside from the testimony furnished by the drops of blood, there is complete evidence that he did not go out anywhere else. The attendants of the Javanese envoy had arrived in a body outside the only exit door while the robbery was still in progress; and they found this door not only locked but bolted inside, so that they were
