[The Devil’s Paw by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Devil’s Paw CHAPTER XII 21/34
I have arranged for a duplicate of that packet to be prepared and forwarded. I set this matter on foot the moment we heard from Miss Abbeway here of her mishap.
The duplicate may reach us at any moment." "Then I propose," the Bishop said, "that we postpone our decision until those papers be received.
Remember that up to the present moment the Council have not pledged themselves to take action until they have perused that document." "And supposing," Fenn objected, "that to-morrow morning at eight o'clock, twenty-three of us are marched off to the Tower! Our whole cause may be paralysed, all that we have worked for all these months will be in vain, and this accursed and bloody war may be dragged on until our politicians see fit to make a peace of words." "I know Mr.Stenson well," the Bishop declared, "and I am perfectly convinced that he is too sane-minded a man to dream of taking such a step as you suggest.
He, at any rate, if others in his Cabinet are not so prescient, knows what Labour means." "I agree with the Bishop, for many reasons," Furley pronounced. "And I," Cross echoed. The sense of the meeting was obvious.
Fenn's unpleasant looking teeth flashed for a moment, and his mouth came together with a little snap. "This is entirely an informal gathering," he said.
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