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Rh "What?"

"What you have said at many and various times about cathedrals—and about cathedral towns, too. And also, if I recall correctly, you must be forgetting a good many of your volunteered comments upon persons who 'do' the churches and their cities. I shall be very glad to take you, of course; but do you dare go?

"Test me!"

"But what are you doing in this town, Mr. Preston?" the girl asked, half amused, half puzzled. "And not only what are you doing in Ely, but what were you doing in the other cathedral towns where you established that 'at least extraordinarily coincidental connection' of yours with crime? And what were your remarkable actions which were so inexplicably suspicious?"

"Must you know before you finally decide whether it is safe to take me to Mrs. Varris and the treasure—hand-bag?"

"Of course! And also how you attached 40