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174 "When you see a man that you think resembles the man who got the dress, I want you to tell me," he instructed the boy, and so in hopes of knowing at least what the man looked like, Richard spent the day wearily travelling around.

"There goes a fellow that looks just like the other duffer," the boy announced, as he and Dick stood watching the passers-by on Broadway.

Richard started to follow the man who, in company with a red-headed florid-faced man that carried about with him one hundred and fifty pounds of superfluous flesh, was going down Broadway.

The man pointed out by the boy had a light beard, a high nose and sharp eyes. Richard recognized him as an Albany assemblyman.

"That looks totally unlike the man I pictured from your description," Richard said,