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Rh bullets so that he ran up the tapestry in his excitement before he remember to go back to the suitcase."

"A monkey!" Baraka exclaimed with excitement.

Max laughed. He knocked four times and the suitcase upon the floor beside him appeared to open of itself, revealing a simple arrangement of springs which controlled it and a little brown form which came forth.

"A monkey of Java!"

"So!" he confirmed, feeling in the suitcase until he found the watch and handing it back to the police captain. "Trained—as I made sure at the boarding-house—by the Javanese to come out from the suitcase when he hears knocks as I gafe them—so! Efery time he hear them he comes from the suitcase, he opens the box, takes what iss within,