Hereford, as the other closed the door behind him, pushed a button.
"Mr. James Annis, who is just leaving here, expects to take a train this afternoon for New York," he directed. "I'd be glad to know for certain whether he does take that train. You understand? Be quick or you may lose sight of him!"
Nevertheless, for several minutes he sat scowling at the door through which Annis had gone, as though he expected the traveller to return—often other persons had pretended to leave in this way only to come back almost at once and betray the real motives in their stories by their demands for money. When fully five minutes had passed and no other sound had followed the double closing of the outer office door which had marked Annis' departure and that of the boy
