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Rh noises; but when he opened the door to this, he found only the Chinese boy again, who was now giving the ocelot some sort of dry bath. The boy and the great cat rolled together on the floor, as the boy rubbed what seemed sawdust mixed with a white powder into the ocelot's fur. He sat up at Hereford's question how he was to get out and answered with Oriental indifference.

"No glet out at all. No kley!"

Then he rose at Hereford's request for a drink and brought whiskey and a glass, the big cat as he went following him like a dog. Hereford took a swallow of the whiskey and went back to the bedroom and lay down upon the lounge.

Presently he heard someone ascend the stairs and knock. The Chinese boy unlocked and opened the door from within and locked