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he had sent after him, Hereford swung his chair around uneasily.
Hereford of late had begun to flatter himself that in connection with Lorine Regan nothing could surprise him; but now he had been thoroughly surprised.
Plainly there were two things to be done immediately—a telephone call to the hotel his ward had given as her address, and another call to the Hotel Tonty, where the stranger had said the Javanese were staying. One of these told him that a party of Javanese gentlemen had registered late the evening before, about whom the management of the Hotel Tonty knew or would tell nothing; the other that Miss Regan had just arrived.
But it was quite impossible—considering the strained relations between himself and
