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The Thirty-nine Steps

CHAPTER TEN
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This man was more than a spy; in his foul way he had been a patriot.
As the handcuffs clinked on his wrists I said my last word to him.
'I hope Franz will bear his triumph well.

I ought to tell you that the ARIADNE for the last hour has been in our hands.' Three weeks later, as all the world knows, we went to war.

I joined the New Army the first week, and owing to my Matabele experience got a captain's commission straight off.

But I had done my best service, I think, before I put on khaki..


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