American evaded. "But you, Mr. Dunneston, you have completed your course at last?"
"Quite. I finished at Exeter two days back."
"And you have satisfied them?"
"Them? The barristers, you mean? Well, rather! But do you know," he continued with recollected indignation, "after I had finished with every blessed cathedral standing in England, and my barristers had wired me the complete satisfaction of the court and that I was properly entered into the entail, I say, do you know, that grubby cousin of mine—the baronet one I believe I mentioned once—"
"Yes," Preston urged on, "I remember. The one with the—title, not the gout!"
"Quite he! Well, the bobry fellow jolly well ran through his own money more than two hundred years ago, you know; and he's done nothing but try after mine ever since. And I say, do you know, he claims to have discovered that our ancestor with the beastly conscience who started all this, went to wor-
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