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MR. HEREFORD HAS A GUNSHOT WOUND
Wade Hereford knew that his office force on the morning after the loss of the Surakarta showed a nervous agitation unsuited to a Chicago banking office, still less usual in any surroundings of his own. This annoyed because it hampered him in his very unusual activities of the day, which included communications by telephone, telegram—and even foreign cable. He was teased, too, by the pain in his left hand, which was swathed in bandages the expert wrapping of which showed that the accident—whatever it had been—was at least serious enough to have required the services of
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