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The Devil’s Paw

CHAPTER XVII
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"But I make no secret of this.

I tumbled to it from the first that this was a great proposition, this amalgamation of Labour.

It makes a power of us, even though it may, as you, Mr.Orden, said in one of your articles, bring us to the gates of revolution.

But it was all I could do to bring myself to sit down at the same table with Penn and his friend Bright.
You see," he explained, "there may be times when you are forced into doing a thing that fundamentally you disapprove of and you know is wrong.

I disapprove of this war, and I know it's wrong--it's a foul mess that we've been got into by those who should have known better--but I ain't like Fenn about it.


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