So you may with an easy mind put your letter in the fire." "It would at any rate be a safer course than to give it away," said the Chaplain, frowning.
"A hit--a palpable hit!.

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I ought to have added that Brother Copas has a notion he can discover the writer, whom he positively asserts to be a woman.

So I allowed him to take the thing away with him.