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The Devil’s Paw

CHAPTER XIX
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He rose to his feet to ensure attention.
"Bishop," he said, "there is one point in what Mr.Stenson has been saying which I think we might and ought to consider a little more fully, and that is, what guarantees have we that Freistner really has the people at the back of him, that he'll be able to cleanse that rat pit at Berlin of the Hohenzollern and his clan of junkers--the most accursed type of politician who ever breathed?
We ought to be very sure about this.

Fenn's our man.

What about it, Fenn ?" "Freistner's letters for weeks," Fenn answered, "have spoken of the wonderful wave of socialistic feeling throughout the country.

He is an honest man, and he does not exaggerate.

He assures us that half the nation is pledged." "One man," David Sands remarked thoughtfully.


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