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CHAPTER II
THE CIRCUIT OF CRIME
"Continuation of Crimes against our Visitors!" the heading announced. And under it the lines ran:
"The shocking series of crimes against Americans which have disgraced England this summer were continued—we dare not say culminated—last evening by the surprisingly simple and successful robbery of two American visitors stopping at the Royal Arms here in our own town of Ely.
"The extraordinarily evil fate which has pursued our cousins from across the water during the past few weeks, marked for victims in this instance Mrs. W. H. Hastings and her daughter, Miss Hastings, of Wilmington, Delaware, who only yesterday afternoon arrived at the Royal Arms. This morning,
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