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Rh throne of Surakarta goes with the emerald?"

"To be sure. But in what iss that strange? What iss strange iss that the German William should be submitted to by all Germans as their ruler, when in broof he can show not efen an emerald!" Max lifted his chin in an argumentative manner. "An emerald iss at least an emerald; and when it iss the Surakarta it iss something more than an emerald. The man that hass that indeed hass something that is worth while."

The striped fish flopped with a loud splash in its glass trough, and Hereford frowned at the interruption to his thoughts. He felt now, with his irritation against his ward increased by his increased certainty, that it was imperative to see Lorine at once.

He got up and took leave of the little German.