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Rh his feet and, bracing his back against the wall on the nearer side, carry himself along between the two walls with feet and hands.

Max now took off his coat. With his feet against one wall and his back braced against the other, he began to work himself along between the two with feet and hands and elbows. He discovered with satisfaction, by peeping through the window, that the occupant of the room next his own was out; and crossing this window, he soon came to the second one. An instant later his knife was between the sashes and had slipped back the simple lock, and Max slid softly into the room.

He saw at once, though dimly, that it was an ordinary boarding-house room, very like his own, with no sign of unusual occupancy. A small gas griddle connected with the fix-