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Rh also bolted Hereford could not know. The man working at the lock evidently was turning the key in the lock by means of a wire. The lock clicked and a shaft of light from the hall told that the door immediately opened. From his position Hereford could see only that a tall shadow shut out the light; immediately the door was closed and locked on the inside.

Hereford realized that the man might be any one who, having followed the reports of the robbery in the papers and then read of the fire, had seen the interpretation of the second event as he himself now so clearly understood that.

So he retreated cautiously as the other advanced, lighting his way every few steps with a pocket electric lamp. Hereford, recalling the position of the bathroom, crossed