towns till you left us at Ely. They left the cathedral towns then, but began at once at Warwick, and since have continued about the towns in as clear a series as before—the last reported from Tavistock only yesterday."
"What, Mr. Dunneston?" The American started out of his chair, going pale in his surprise. "A robbery at Tavistock was reported yesterday? I haven't seen it in the papers!"
"The police appear to have held the report for a time," the Englishman explained, taking a paper from his pocket. "Only the later edition this morning gave it out."
"So that was why you asked a moment ago if I had just come down from Tavistock?" the American inquired. "And that set you to wondering, to put it mildly, how close I have been to the rest of those robberies between Warwick and Tavistock during these weeks since you've seen me?"
The Englishman evidently considered it unnecessary to answer.
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