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Rh on his way down town, he reread this column carefully but still with no more than curiosity:

"An incendiary followed the robber—or the thief of the night before returned as an incendiary—in the Javanese suite at the Hotel Tonty at an early hour this morning.

"A few minutes before two o'clock cording to the account given the police—flames were discovered by Hafara, the secretary of the Javanese envoy, in the room now occupied by Baraka. This room is that adjoining the one from which the great Java emerald disappeared so mysteriously the night before. Hafara, crying an alarm to the other Javanese rushed in and awoke his superior, who had gone to bed only a short time before, and the two, with the assistance of the other Javanese, endeavored to put out