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Rh iss not about a list of emeralds you have come; but only about the great Surakarta?"

Hereford, looking carefully on both sides and under the bench where Max was sitting, sat down.

"That is true, Max. Where is it?"

"It iss in the tower of the Soesoehoenan of Surakarta, my friend, where it has stayed six hundred years and will, perhaps, stay six hundred more in the steel box that was made that long ago to protect it. You will make no money out of the Surakarta, my friend. It iss not on the market to be sold; it iss not to be seen on exhibition even. Opserve a pretty story: Six hundred years ago there wass in that vertile island of Java a most cunning worker of metals. The Dutch had not yet come to the island, which was vertile then in brown men of intelligence as it iss