FARREN OF THE POLICE
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"I had just got back from following a possible clew; but we need not go into that—it amounted to nothing."
"Miss Regan seemed—how?"
"Nervous—quite agitated, Mr. Hereford; but only when she thought no one was looking. You must understand there was a good deal of disturbance just then. The firemen were still there, and the Javanese rooms were open and people passing through. Baraka and Hafara and the rest were having their burns dressed by a doctor. I heard Baraka talking in an unusually loud tone and I made my way into the room where he was to see what was going on. Miss Regan had just arrived and Baraka seemed to have been addressing her, but I didn't get that part of it. They were entirely occupied with one another and the other Jav-
