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After a fortnight of his new life, Philip took stock of himself and his belongings. In the first place, then, he owned a new name, taken bodily from certain documents which he had brought with him from England. Further, as Mr. Merton Ware, he was the monthly tenant of a small but not uncomfortable suite of rooms on the top story of a residential hotel in the purlieus of Broadway. He had also, apparently, been a collector of newspapers of certain dates, all of which contained some such paragraph as this:
DOUGLAS ROMILLY, WEALTHY ENGLISH BOOT / MANUFACTURER, DISAPPEARS FROM THE WALDORF ASTORIA / HOTEL. WALKS OUT OF HIS ROOM WITHIN AN HOUR OF / LANDING AND HAS NOT BEEN HEARD OF SINCE. DOWN TOWN / HAUNTS SEARCHED. FOUL PLAY FEARED.