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The Devil’s Paw

CHAPTER XV
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We know his handwriting, we know his character, we've had a hundred different occasions to test his earnestness and trustworthiness.

This document is in his own writing and accompanied by remarks and references to previous correspondence which render its authenticity indisputable." "Granted that the proposals themselves are genuine, there still remain the three signatures," Julian observed.
"Why should we doubt them ?" Fenn protested.

"Freistner guarantees them, and Freistner is our friend, the friend and champion of Labour throughout the world.

To attempt to deceive us would be to cover himself with eternal obloquy." "Yet these terms," Julian pointed out, "differ fundamentally from anything which Germany has yet allowed to be made public." "There are two factors here which may be considered," Miles Furley intervened.

"The first is that the economic condition of Germany is far worse than she has allowed us to know.


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