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Rh and read it, under his companion's watchful scrutiny.

"An American!" the heading stated confidently. And:—

"Elsewhere in these columns," the editorial read, "is the account of the cool robbery of two American women stopping at the Royal Arms—a robbery which is only the most recent of a dozen which, as already commented, have consecutively scandalized our cathedral cities this summer.

"We have already directed attention to the manner in which the Americans themselves have practically invited these thefts. But till to-day we confess that we had missed the most obvious meaning of the facts as we have given them but which, at last, a friendly correspondent has pointed out.

"Under the theory just communicated to us and which the separate police investigation of every crime serves only to confirm, there is now no possible reason for doubting that which many of us must have long suspected; viz., 24