when he wished, made a solitude for himself even in the city's heart. When he attempted to dress, the noise he made brought to him the Chinese boy. The boy, deft and evidently appointed as his nurse, helped him to dress and brought him soup and some kind of hard but pleasant-tasting crackers which Hereford had never seen before. Max, he said, was out. Hereford, feeling stronger when he had eaten and now seeing the Chinese boy nowhere about, made his way through Max's little sitting room into the hall and to the front door. This door at the head of the long flight of stairs that led to the entrance door below, he found locked. The rear door was locked, as he discovered when he tried it, and there was no window opening out upon the little back porch.
In a room to one side, Hereford heard
