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Rh that tour so much that he wished no one else to miss it, or whether an opposite emotion led him to enjoin it upon his descendants. At any rate, he put the requirement into the entail that before entering upon his property every heir must make the round of the same churches and ask forgiveness for taking the money, I suppose. So, Dunneston's uncle having just died, Dunneston has procured from his barristers a list of the cathedrals standing as such in England in 1369, when his ancestor went around, and he is now making what he calls his 'qualifying round' of the church course." Preston looked down doubtfully. "He says he's now nine up and eleven still to pray," he ventured.

"I am glad," the girl smiled up at him forgivingly, "that you had the shame to attribute that to poor Mr. Dunneston."

"Oh, he's capable of worse—I mean much better than that, Miss Varris, really," Preston let himself go on, encouraged. "He was telling me just the other day that, thanks to the 51