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The Devil’s Paw

CHAPTER XI
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Your anonymity has been splendidly preserved up till now, but I feel compelled to warn you that a disclosure is imminent.

Take my advice and accept it with a good grace.

You have established yourself so irrevocably now that the value of your work will not be lessened by the discovery of the fact that you yourself do not belong to the class of whom you have written so brilliantly.
I hope to see you in a few days.
Sincerely, M.HALKIN.
Even after she had concluded the letter, she still stared at it.
She read again the one conclusive sentence--"Your anonymity has been splendidly preserved up till now." Then she suddenly broke into a laugh which was almost hysterical.
"So this is his hack journalism!" she exclaimed.

"Julian Orden--Paul Fiske!" "I don't wonder you're surprised," Fenn observed.

"Fourteen guineas for a dress suit, and he thinks he understands the working man!" She turned her head slowly and looked at him.


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