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Meanwhile, Evors and his new-found friend were seated on the rocks just outside the lodge gates of the Abbey, trying to make something of the tangled skein which had found its way into the hands of the man from Australia.
"My mind is all in a maze," the latter said. "When I got up this morning I had no idea of what was going to happen in the course of the day. Now, here have I been looking for my sister Mary all over the world, and I come in contact with her, above all places, in a sleepy little town in Devonshire.