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The Secret Agent

CHAPTER V
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He was told that such was the name on two tickets out of three given up out of that train at Maze Hill.

The third person who got out was a hawker from Gravesend well known to the porters.

The Chief Inspector imparted that information in a tone of finality with some ill humour, as loyal servants will do in the consciousness of their fidelity and with the sense of the value of their loyal exertions.

And still the Assistant Commissioner did not turn away from the darkness outside, as vast as a sea.
"Two foreign anarchists coming from that place," he said, apparently to the window-pane.

"It's rather unaccountable."' "Yes, sir.


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