A MYSTERY FOR THE POLICE
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terror and anxiety, has plainly told all that he knows; and his account, which tallies in every particular with the narratives of the members of his suite, has put the police completely at a loss. No member of the Javanese party shows any wound which could account in a manner different from that described by the envoy for the presence of the drops of blood."
Max, when he compared this account with those of the other morning papers which the boy had brought, found that it differed from them in no essential particular, though he re-read them all slowly, with interest increasing at every line.
Finally he put the papers thoughtfully away and went out into his garden to meditate.
His pigeons, from their cote upon the roof,
