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Rh that I wass suddenly like one struck, and said to myself, 'Max, you are a fool! It iss because there had to be still a dublicate box that there had to be also a fire! Thatfire!' That [sic] is why, my friendt, I said the acgomplice in Baraka's suite could not know much. He could be trusted to carry in a suitcase; he could be trusted to set a fire so that the room of Baraka would be left empty and someone else could get in; but he could not be trusted to know that the liddle monkey had failed!"

Hereford started to his feet in excitement, but the German stopped him with a gesture.

"But, Max—!" Hereford exclaimed.

"Yes; at once I came to the Hotel Tonty. But still I had to wait, the Javanese would not be out of their rooms till six. I had plenty of time, before I could get in, to think how the liddle wounded monkey had gone