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Rh "Come in, Max," Hereford invited.

Max, gazing about with mild curiosity, shook his head.

"No, since you are busy with Mr. McAdams. It iss nothings. I did not come to see this," he dismissed with a nod of his head the confusion which had so agitated the others. "I have heard what it iss—nothings."

"Nothing?" McAdams grunted his disgust.

"I said so," Max replied, gazing at the heavily featured man calmly.

"Then you do not see that it is connected with the search for the Surakarta?" McAdams questioned, pityingly. "I, fortunately, was on the ground when the trouble was first discovered. There is no possible question but that this is not a real robbery