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The Devil’s Paw

CHAPTER X
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These details do not concern you." "They concern my conscience," was the grave reply.

"Ours is an earnest spiritual effort for peace, a taking away from the hands of the politicians of a great human question which they have proved themselves unable to handle.

We should look, therefore, with peculiar care to the means we adopt." Nicholas Fenn nodded.

He lit a very pungent cigarette from a paper packet by his side.
"You and I, Bishop," he said, "are pacifists in the broadest meaning of the word, but that does not mean that we may not sometimes have to use force to attain our object.

We have a department which alone is concerned with the dealing of such matters.


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