HEREFORD INTERVIEWS ANNIS
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To the trustee, accustomed to reading motives in many kinds of men, it seemed that Annis coolness and braggadocio were too pronounced. He felt that, in part at least, he comprehended now.
But nothing of this appeared in Hereford's look; for as if with reluctant resignation that no more was to be got from Annis, he turned and left.