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Hereford, if you understand it, you do more than I do."
"I do not," said Hereford.
He dismissed McAdams through the private door, and fell to pacing his office—now slowly in absorption, now swiftly as though his bewilderment unconsciously spurred him to action. Hereford, who had thought that his ward had exhausted her possibilities of surprising him, found it easier to explain to himself her having first taken up this affair with the Soesoehoenan than it was to account for her seemingly unmeaning action in attempting now to call off the presentation of the stone. Did this mean that in her anger at the interference with her mad plan she was willing to proceed with the bargain and marry the Soesoehoenan without
