On the morning of his departure she was told by the first-floor
waiter that the occupant of Room 26 had complained of an uproar in
the night, and almost immediately she was summoned to see Benham.
He was standing facing the door and in a position which did a little
obscure the condition of the room behind him. He was carefully
dressed, and his manner was more cold and decorous than ever. But
one of his hands was tied up in a white bandage.
"I am going this morning," he said, "I am going down now to
breakfast. I have had a few little accidents with some of the
things in the room and I have cut my hand. I want you to tell the
manager and see that they are properly charged for on the
bill. . . . Thank you."
The head chambermaid was left to consider the accidents.
Benham's things were all packed up and the room had an air of having
been straightened up neatly and methodically after a destructive
cataclysm. One or two items that the chambermaid might possibly
have overlooked in the normal course of things were carefully
exhibited.
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