Jake Randolph in "The Littlest Client" Pt. 43

I figured I better go on to either Richmond's or Donovan's place before Rucksack called them and told them I was coming.

Richmond was a few minutes closer than Donovan so I hailed a cab and told him the address of the boarding house on Alvarado.

Half an hour later I was walking up the concrete path to the boarding house. It was a drab looking place; a two-story house with a gable roof, gray paint that was losing the will to live, and a brown lawn that had already lost it.

I could only imagine the people inside...