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The Thirty-nine Steps

CHAPTER EIGHT
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At my house he will get a certain document from Whittaker, and after that he will be motored to Portsmouth where a destroyer will take him to Havre.

His journey is too important for the ordinary boat-train.

He will never be left unattended for a moment till he is safe on French soil.

The same with Whittaker till he meets Royer.
That is the best we can do, and it's hard to see how there can be any miscarriage.

But I don't mind admitting that I'm horribly nervous.
This murder of Karolides will play the deuce in the chancelleries of Europe.' After breakfast he asked me if I could drive a car.


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