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The man in the silk-lined, London-made overcoat, holding his hat firmly on his head lest the January wind send its expensive perfection into the gutter, paused to ask his way of the man with no overcoat, his hands shoved into his ragged pockets, his shapeless headgear crowded down over his eyes, red and bleary with the piercing wind.
"Burns? " repeated the second man to the question of the first. "Doc Burns? Sure! Next house beyond the corner -- the brick one. " He turned to point. "Tell it by the rigs hitched. It's his office hours. You'll do some waitin', tell ye that."