THEY SETTLE
279
ing, so no one seemed to be following him now.
A few people, coming from the rooms about, passed toward the elevators, evidently on their way to dinner. A chambermaid appeared to straighten their rooms after they had left. Hereford walked down the corridor as though coming from an elevator and followed the maid into the room where she was working. Her pass-key had been left in the door. He took it out.
"I want to go back to my room a moment," he explained, as she looked up. "My wife seems to have carried my key downstairs with her."
"Very well, sir."
Hereford returned down the hall to the door of the Javanese suite, which he unlocked and returned the key to the maid.
