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Rh "Yes; but I haf not explained all—because at first I wass not able to explain it to myself. I haf said the dublicate box should haf been destroyed, but also I haf said that, in spite of that, I found the dublicate box."

The police captain appeared not to comprehend.

"My friendt," said Max to Hereford, "when I found that dublicate box, then indeed I wass perplexed. How wass it that there wass still this dublicate box? The monkey they would keep—a monkey iss not evidence. But the box—no; as soon as the emerald was stolen, they would destroy the dublicate box which was so incgriminating against themselves! Well, I could understand out of it only this—that the monkey must be in the suitcase which wass carried by the Javanese. So then a plan came into my