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CHAPTER IX
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Captain Bervie has tried to awaken his mind to a sense of the danger that threatens him, if he persists in associating with his republican friends--and has utterly failed.

Mr.
Bowmore and Mr.Percy have made speeches at the Club, intended to force the latter gentleman's claim on the immediate attention of Government.
Mr.Bowmore's flow of frothy eloquence has its influence (as you know from our shorthand writers' previous reports) on thousands of ignorant people.

As it seems to me, the reasons for at once putting this man in prison are beyond dispute.

Whether it is desirable to include Mr.Percy in the order of arrest, I must not venture to decide.

Let me only hint that his seditious speech rivals the more elaborate efforts of Mr.
Bowmore himself.
"So much for the present.


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