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 Daniels was beginning to feel a genuine anxiety about Underwood.

It was late evening, and several members of the Inner Circle were gathered around the fireplace in their particular sanctum, mockingly called the Holy of Holies, smoking and arguing about the probabilities of a war in the near future, and the fiendish contrivances that might be invented for use in such a war.

The banker, leaning indolently against the mantel, glanced around the room and asked, irrelevantly, "Where's Pete Garvin tonight? Anybody know?"

"Yes." Dr. L. Sage Hammerton, vice-president, and second only to Lafe Daniels in atheistic belief and skeptical comment, nodded in reply. "He's gone to a show with Felix Underwood. Said they'd be back about 10 o'clock. They're about half an hour late, but that’s not unusual."

No one made any remark, and for a moment conversation lagged. Then John Morgan began some idle comment anent the interrupted subject of near war when the call-boy appeared in the doorway.

"Telephone for Dr. Hammerton. Imperative. Will you please hurry, sir?"

Hammerton rose to follow the boy, and Daniels said with mock sympathy, "It's hell to be a doctor, eh, Sage? Never let you have a moment's peace."

Hammerton nodded, grinning, and shrugged as he went out the door.

The talk among the men resumed its former trend, and they had a neat, bloody massacre all mapped out when Hammerton paused in the doorway, his hat in his hand, his top-coat over his arm, and an expression of shock and dismay on his face.

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