escape, apparently, and after exhausting every possible concealment, they took themselves off the same way. From the thoroughness with which they have gone through everything, there must have been several of them * * *" McAdams went on and on, ponderously. Hereford, his own speculations possessing him, lacked the requisite energy to rid himself of his representative. Yet he was relieved when, answering a ring at the house telephone, he heard Max's voice; and, in a moment, the little German came up.
With the calmness of one who had the event adequately described to him before and who had determined in his mind that the described event was a phenomenon of only passing interest, Max surveyed the confusion which Hereford's man was only beginning to put straight.
