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and plainly this man belonged to the latter class. Among the many florid gentlemen of his kind who were present, he was remarkable only as being more florid, more smiling, larger and giving even more plainly than the rest the impression that he was well acquainted with the downtown district between the hours of midnight and four in the morning. But the smaller of the two McAdams could not place. Of compact and muscular build, he had the dress, the bearing and the ease that the detective associated only with city breeding.
"I tell you, Lund," this man remarked as soon as they were seated, "They're on the wrong track in that investigation upstairs."
McAdams, with his eyes upon his paper, noted that the name of the larger man was Lund.
