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Rh opinion, the authorities would at least have removed the plaster from the walls and ceiling of the room and taken up enough of the flooring to have established the impossibility of a concealed outlet. The more sensational journals, which as an excuse for printing many columns about crimes of all sorts assumed toward all crimes an analytical attitude, gave elaborate descriptions of the room in which they enumerated even the baggage and articles of clothing of the Javanese. Papers of a conservative sort contented themselves with remarking that a room which after eighteen hours of study had failed to reveal to the police any means of outlet would not be likely to show one at all.

Detective McAdams bought all of these papers as soon as they appeared on the streets. As McAdams had already deter-