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"What is Fee going to think when he comes back and finds the chain back in place?"

"Oh, that's going to be helpful."

Tom turned around and placed his arm on the back of his seat. "He'll think the reverend came here after someone reported an attempted break-in, checked the place out, and locked it up again. When he works that out, he'll be even more confident that he got here first. So he won't be paying as much attention—he'll be careless."

We settled back down to wait.