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Rounding the corner was the man with the And behind him followed a vast crowd.

ound was covered

s. I know the East

and I have checked

and, if it is truethat he

as Little-Wigmarsh-in-

west as Higgleford-cum-

I do no

th-the-Hill, he must un-

done a lot of running.

which must not be forgotten

m not in a condition to observe

village of Higgleford-cum-

we can safely assume that, wherever else he went, he got plenty of exercise.

But the pleasantest of functions must end, and, just as the setting sun was gilding the spire of the ivy-covered church of St. Barnabas the Resilient, where George as a child had sat so often, enlivening the tedium of the sermon by making faces at the choir-boys, a damp and bedraggled figure might have been observed crawling painfully along the High Street of East