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MAX HAS CHANGED HIS LODGINGS
The taxicab brought Hereford swiftly to his apartment building. The doorman met him at the curb, all excitement, all explanatory; the manager of the building, more suave, met him at the door. The police appeared rather impartially distributed all about. His man had returned before him and had at once set himself inventorying to discover what had been taken. McAdams, who had arrived soon after Hereford's departure and therefore was waiting below when the disturbance in the apartment was first reported, was consequently the first on
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