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ALIAS HAROLD PARMALEE.
Merton Gill awoke to the comforting realization that he was between sheets instead of blankets, and that this morning he need not obscurely leave his room by means of a window.

As he dressed, however, certain misgivings, to which he had been immune the day before, gnawed into his optimism.

He was sober now.

The sheer intoxication of food after fasting, of friendly concern after so long a period when no one had spoken him kindly or otherwise, had evaporated.