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.