[The Devil’s Paw by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Devil’s Paw CHAPTER XII 32/34
I've told Miss Abbeway and the Bishop that he is at large. You backed me up." Bright thrust his long, unpleasant, knobby fingers into his pocket, and produced a crumpled cigarette, which he lit from the end of his companion's. "Well," he demanded, "what do you want ?" "I have come to the conclusion," Fenn decided, "that it is not in the interests of our cause that Orden should become associated with it in any way." "We've a good deal of power," Bright ruminated, "but it seems to me you're inclined to stretch it.
I gather that the others want him delivered up.
We can't act against them." "Not if they know," Fenn answered significantly. Bright came over to the mantelpiece, leaned his elbow upon it, and hung his extraordinarily unattractive face down towards his companion's. "Nicholas," he said, "I don't blame you for fencing, but I like plain words.
You've done well out of this new Party.
I haven't.
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