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Rh of her father's—the packer's—estate, do not find it hard to believe that, as is stated, she made a bargain with the Soesoehoenan to marry him if he would give her the great state emerald of Java, the Surakarta—the priceless possession of the island and the greatest emerald in the world.

"Whatever the facts may be, it is certain that a party of Javanese gentlemen attached to the Soesoehoenan's court arrived in Chicago yesterday to meet Miss Regan here, bearing with them a famous steel antique combination box—said to be the oldest steel combination fastening in the world—containing the great emerald. The fact that the stone was actually here and safe in its box last night is vouched for not only by the Javanese envoy, in whose charge it was, but also by customs officials at San Francisco