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He left his luggage to be called for later , and pushed off on his bicycle . He always took his bicycle when he went into the country . It was part of the theory of exercise . One day one would get up at six o'clock and pedal away to Kenilworth , or Stratford-on-Avon -- anywhere . And within a radius of twenty miles there were always Norman churches and Tudor mansions to be seen in the course of an afternoon 's excursion . Somehow they never did get seen , but all the same it was nice to feel that the bicycle was there , and that one fine morning one really might get up at six . Once at the top of the long hill which led up from Camlet station , he felt his spirits mounting .