Then, lo! as by magic, the foyer was empty save for the denizens of the hotel who could produce evidence of identity.

It had been proved to demonstration, for the sixth time that week, that in the metropolis of the greatest of Empires there is not one law for the rich and another for the poor.
Deeply affected by what he had overheard, Priam Farll rose in a lift and sought his bed.

He perceived clearly that he had been among the governing classes of the realm.
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