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Rh "that Mr. McAdams, hafing no ideas at all of his own upon the subject, iss breparing now to discard efen those few ideas which others haf been able to gif him."

McAdams scrutinized Max intently for several moments, then turned to Hereford.

"So," the detective went on more pompously still, "we will agree to eliminate these shots, as they could not possibly have been fired in the way Baraka has told it. We will say that Baraka was asleep when the emerald was stolen and that he continued to sleep while the thief made his escape. But Baraka was undoubtedly greatly disturbed and continually uneasy over the safety of the emerald. It is allowable to imagine, therefore, that later he awoke and not knowing it was already gone, and imagining that someone was even then making an attempt