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`` Is Mr. Sparrow here ? '' asked the professor . `` No , sir , '' was the reply . `` He has gone to Centerville , but will return by noon . '' `` Well , '' said the bishop , `` we really came to see you . You play the organ , and we are minus an organist at our chapel services . Mr. Keyes , our organist , we have just learned , has been taken suddenly ill and is in the hospital .