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Rh ancient Ely grill. "I know that I am not exactly conventional in my ways of going about a country; but I was not aware that I have been acting so suspiciously about your little towns, Mr. Dunneston."

"You were not, sir?" the Englishman checked him. "Really, it seems you must have appreciated how you appeared to one watching you for a time like myself—particularly since you offered no explanation."

"Of what?"

"Of why you were touring these cathedral towns of ours, alone."

The American smiled again.

"I assure you it wasn't my fault you found me alone, Mr. Dunneston. And I recognize," he laughed as he glanced down at himself, "that I'm scarcely one of the sort that take the English cathedrals for their vacation. But you must mean something else. Besides being a man, in good health and spirits, and still touring the cathedral towns, what have I been doing which seemed so suspicious?"

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