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MR. HEREFORD ENTERTAINS MISS REGAN

Wade Hereford, after an extraordinarily busy afternoon, the incidents and interviews of which were quite out of the ordinary course of business in a Chicago banking office, took an automobile to his apartments on the North Side. He had a five-room suite in a large and fashionable apartment building near Lincoln Park, looking, from his windows upon one of the upper floors, across the park to the lake.

Hereford, who when he dined at home, usually had his table set either in the restaurant on the first floor or in the roof garden, almost equally well could be served from the

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