possibility of my being this circuitous cathedral town thief, he warned you of a real danger from me."
"And now what do you mean?" the girl asked, checking the lighter tone of the moment before.
"I mean, Miss Varris," the young American returned, as gravely, "that, though I was laughing about it this morning, and was joking only a moment ago in there before the others, seriously now, there is almost every circumstantial reason and many other contributing bits of evidence besides, to indicate to the police, convincingly, that I am the thief travelling about robbing the Americans in these cathedral towns.
"Wait, please!" he checked her gently as she laughed lightly at him and started to speak. "You know, the police only this morning ferreted out the true significance of the cathedral crimes as a series. To check up their new theory, they have wired to all the other towns where the robberies have occurred for
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