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The Devil’s Paw

CHAPTER XVII
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"The scheme was started a few days after your article in the British Review.

We took your motto as our text `Coordination and cooperation.'" They found their way into the clubroom, and at luncheon, later on, Julian strove to improve his acquaintance with the men who were seated around him.

Some of them were Members of Parliament with well-known names, others were intensely local, but all seemed earnest and clear-sighted.

Phineas Cross commenced to talk about war generally.

He had just returned from a visit with other Labour Members to the front, although it is doubtful whether the result had been exactly in accordance with the intentions of the powers who had invited him.
"I'll tell you something about war," he said, "which contradicts most every other experience.


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