[The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton J. Hendrick]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II CHAPTER XVI 25/45
Therefore let's talk." She gave it up, but looked at me again to make sure I was all there. I stopped at the barber shop, badly needing a shave.
The barber got his brush and razor ready.
I said: "Cut my hair." He didn't talk for a few minutes, evidently engaged in deep thought. When I got to my office, a case was brought to me of a runaway American who was caught trying to send news to Germany.
"Very good," said I, "now let it be made evident that it shall appear therefore that his innocence having been duly established he shall be shot." "What, sir ?" "That since it must be evident that his guilt is genuine therefore see that he be acquitted and then shot." Laughlin and Bell and Stabler were seen in an earnest conference in the next room for nearly half an hour. Shoecraft brought me a letter.
"This is the most courteous complaint about the French passport bureau we have yet had.
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