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Rh the rounds of the public rooms below, the saloons opposite, returned and went to a telephone booth, where he spent some time. Emerging, he went to the taxicab that had brought him, paid the man and hired him again by the hour, to wait on the corner half a block away.

He returned then—nervously and restlessly—to the door of the room on the third floor. Again he descended. Noon came, and, taking a seat in the dining room where he could watch those entering the hotel, he ordered lunch. This finished, he began again the same baffled round from room to saloons and telephone booths, but seldom out of sight of the entrance to the hotel. As dusk was coming, he finally was rewarded. Going to the room from the telephone booth,