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cried Lapham ; `` I 'll come and TELL them why . Who shall I ask for ? When shall I be there ? '' `` At eight o'clock , please , '' said Rogers , rising , without apparent alarm at his threat , if it was a threat . `` And ask for me ; I 've taken a room at the hotel for the present . '' `` I wo n't keep you five minutes when I get there , '' said Lapham ; but he did not come away till ten o'clock . It appeared to him as if the very devil was in it .