For a moment Larry stood moveless where Casey had left him. Then
fierce purpose, and a cautious recklessness, surged up and took
mastery of him. It had required what Casey had told him to end his
irksome waiting and wavering. No longer could he remain in his hiding-
place, safe himself, trying to save Maggie by slow, indirect endeavor.
The time had now come for very different methods. The time had come to
step forth into the open, taking, of course, no unnecessary risk, and
to have it out face to face with his enemies, who were also Maggie's
real enemies, though she counted them her friends--to save Maggie
against her own will, if he could save her in no other way.
And having so decided, Larry walked quickly out of the hallway into
the street.
CHAPTER XXVII
On the sidewalk Larry glanced swiftly around him. Half a block down
the street on the front of a drug-store was a blue telephone flag. A
minute later he was inside a telephone booth in the drug-store, asking
first for the Hotel Grantham, and then asking the Grantham operator to
be connected with Miss Maggie Cameron.
There was a long wait. While he listened for Maggie's voice he blazed
with terrible fury against Barney Paler. For Maggie to be connected
with a straight crook, that idea had been bad enough.
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