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The Clue of the Twisted Candle

CHAPTER IX
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Kara rose from his desk and began to pace the room.
"Do you know T.X.

Meredith ?" he asked suddenly.
"I have heard of him," said the girl.
"A man with a singular mind," said Kara; "a man against whom my favourite weapon would fail." She looked at him with interest in her eyes.
"What is your favourite weapon, Mr.Kara ?" she asked.
"Fear," he said.
If he expected her to give him any encouragement to proceed he was disappointed.

Probably he required no such encouragement, for in the presence of his social inferiors he was somewhat monopolizing.
"Cut a man's flesh and it heals," he said.

"Whip a man and the memory of it passes, frighten him, fill him with a sense of foreboding and apprehension and let him believe that something dreadful is going to happen either to himself or to someone he loves--better the latter--and you will hurt him beyond forgetfulness.

Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the stake.


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