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I want an outing after a long spell of hard work; so I'll run across to Calais and search for the register of Samuel's interment. I suppose somebody took the trouble to bury him, though he was a stranger in the land." "And if I extort the name we want from poor old Sparsfield's recollection?" "In that case you can start at once for the place, and begin your search on the spot.
Sparsfield's edification. "Aylsey Cross Bowford Cross Callindale Cross Huxter's Cross Jarnam Cross Kingborough Cross." "That's him!" cried my old friend suddenly. "Which?" I asked eagerly. "Huxter's Cross; I remember thinking at the time that it must be a place where they sold things, because of the name Huxter, you see, pronounced just the same as if it was spelt with a cks instead of an x.
"We'll test the ancient Sparsfield's memory with every Cross in the three Ridings, and if the faintest echo of the name we want still lingers in his feeble old brain, we'll awaken it." My patron ran his finger-nail along one of the columns of the index. "Just take your pencil and write down the names as I call them," he said.
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