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Rh Dunneston?" The American was now the questioner, bewildered in his turn.

"Precisely, Mr. Preston." The Dunneston descendant twisted the air earnestly where the ancestral mustache used to be. "Wasn't that the understanding which freed you at Ely and let you keep on without—without even surveillance from the police? For you most certainly must recall that she assured us you were not a chance acquaintance, as they said at first, but had come over with them and met them at Ely purposely to travel a bit together, and that therefore you couldn't be the one robbing them. Surely you see that was all that cleared you!"

"Of course."

"But you did not travel with them at all, after leaving Ely?" the Briton inquired again, almost outraged. "You merely went with them away from our local authorities and then—you separated?"

"Yes."

"But you continued in England?"

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