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Rh to mind, for he had learned thoroughly that his ward never repeated.

Yet it was not the certainty it would be something different that caused Hereford to frown now. It was the knowledge that this new caprice, whatever it might be, was evidently about to be carried out in his vicinity.

Hereford stared for many minutes over the city roofs, and slightly flushed as he comprehended that his ward, for the first time in his knowledge of her—which so far had been entirely by letter—had honored her source of income with a visit; for the hotel address to which he was to acknowledge receipt of her instructions was one in the city.

This proximity, with its promise of embarrassing complications for himself, made him anxious to learn her purpose in coming