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A native five feet eight , perhaps . Very tall for a Tagal , slender , sinewy , and with a tuft of wiry hair and sixteen inches of shirt missing . `` For further particulars and the missing sixteen inches , as well as the hair , inquire at Colonel Brent 's , Number 199 Calle San Luis , Ermita . '' It seems that soon after dark that eventful evening Mrs. Brent and Miss Porter had seen Maidie comfortably bestowed in the big , broad , cane-bottomed bed in her airy room , and had left her to all appearances sleeping placidly towards eight o'clock , and then gone out to dinner . Whatever the cause of her agitation on receiving at Brent 's hands the little card photograph of herself , it had subsided after a brief , low-toned conference with Sandy , who quickly came and speedily hastened away , and a later visit from Dr. Frank , whose placid , imperturbable , restful ways were in themselves well-nigh as soothing as the orange-flower water prescribed for her . Even the little night-light , floating in its glass , had been extinguished when the ladies left her . The room assigned to Marion was at the north-west corner of the house .