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Rh up the tapestry, how from there he must haf gone along the wide moulting close to the ceiling—"

"You were here in this room, Max, at six o'clock last night?" Hereford broke out.

The German gravely nodded. "Yes, my friendt; I wass in this room at six o'clock last night, as soon as it wass left empty by the Javanese. I wass here, and with a chair to stand upon I poked eferywhere along the wide mouldting which iss at the top by the wall, until I found that of which I wass in search—that same thing for which you and Mr. Annis one hour later fought, not knowing Max had come already and had got it. Haf I not been right to feel all day around me the walls of the jail when I had not yet got the monkey to show how it had been done and still had—this?"