"I would rather, Mr. Annis," he said, "you did not use that tone with me. I have come here to put things very frankly and openly to you—not concealing anything in regard to yourself that I know or pretending to know anything regarding you that I do not know. It will expediate matters if you keep that in mind.
"You did not, I say, take the afternoon train. You had plainly wished me to think you had stopped in casually upon me while passing through Chicago; instead, you stayed, coming back to this hotel, where you had then, as you have continued to have, a room. Therefore I saw to it that you made the acquaintance, here in the buffet of this hotel, late in the afternoon of the same day, of a man named Lund."
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