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Rh been saved half burned. But the great steel box, of course, had been moved out; the suitcase also and Baraka's personal effects.

He located the electric-light switch and let the match burn out. Reopening the door to the other room and listening cautiously before turning on the light, he heard a sound which seemed to come from the door of the room beyond—not at the door by which he himself had entered, but at the door of the room between: some one seemed to be operating the lock.

The hotel servants, when they left the rooms, had gone out by the door through which Hereford had entered. According to custom, therefore, the keys of the other doors communicating with the hall would be left on the inside, with the doors locked. Whether the doors happened to have been