The Surakarta

The Surakarta (1913)
Edwin Balmer and William MacHarg

Chapter 1

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THE
SURAKARTA
MacHARG-BALMER

THE SURAKARTA

"You will not deny to me that you have the emerald?"
Frontispiece. See Page 146

THE
SURAKARTA

BY
WILLIAM MACHARG
AND
EDWIN BALMER

Authors of "The Achievements of Luther Trant"

ILLUSTRATED BY LESTER RALPH

BOSTON
SMALL, MAYNARD AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1913
By Small, Maynard & Company
(Incorporated)

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Mr. Hereford Entertains a Stranger from Java	1
II	Max Schimmel	24
III	Lorine	34
IV	A Mystery for the Police	51
V	Mr. Hereford Has a Gunshot Wound	69
VI	The Room at the Tonty	85
VII	The Man Who Shot at Nothing	108
VIII	Mr. M'Adams Converses With Two Strangers	118
IX	Mr. Hereford Entertains Miss Regan	137
X	Miss Regan Inquires After Her Estate	162
XI	Max Has Changed His Lodgings	178
XII	The House of the Man Who Shot at Nothing	184
XIII	A Fire at the Tonty	197
XIV	Mr. Hereford Meets Farren of the Police	205
XV	The Gunshot Wound Again	224
XVI	Mr. Hereford Interviews Mr. Annis	249
XVII	Mr. Hereford and Annis Settle Their Disagreement	274
XVIII	Miss Regan Will Marry the Soesoehoenan	296
XIX	Max Has Kept Out of Jail	320
XX	It Has Been Done Again	329
XXI	Max Schimmel Does Some Explaining	342
XXII	Max Makes Further Explaining Unnecessary	362

ILLUSTRATIONS

		PAGE
"You will not deny to me that you have the emerald?" See page 146 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		1
"You are not so clever that I shall not receive the emerald" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		50
"You mean you think I resemble him also in that?" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		157
"Tell me," he burst out, "that you have not really meant to marry this—the Soesoehoenan!" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		235
Hereford looked to his ward, and found her look met his, filled with a happy light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		369

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