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The Goose Girl

CHAPTER XVIII
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But what I can't understand is why you return and put your head in the lion's mouth.

The police will stumble on something.

I tell you frankly that if you are arrested I could do little or nothing for you.

The United States protects only harmless political outcasts.

Yours is a crime such as nullifies your citizenship, and any government would be compelled, according to the terms of treaty, to send you back here, if the demand was made for your extradition." "I know all that," Grumbach replied, dumping the ash into his palm and casting it into the paper-basket.
"I suppose that when conscience drives we must go on.


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