[The Devil’s Paw by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Devil’s Paw CHAPTER XIX 11/20
"If, there is a weak point about this business, which I am not prepared wholly to admit, it is that the entire job on that side seems to be run by one man.
There's a score of us.
I should like to hear of more on the other side." "It is strange," Mr.Stenson pointed out, "that so little news of this gain of strength on the part of the Socialists has been allowed to escape from Germany.
However rigid their censorship, copies of German newspapers reach us every day from neutral countries.
I cannot believe that Socialism has made the advance Freistner claims for it, and I agree with our friends, Mr.Cross and Mr.Sands here, that you ought to be very sure that Freistner is not deceived before you take this extreme measure." "We are content to trust to our brothers in Germany," Fenn declared. "I am not convinced that we should be wise to do so," Julian intervened. "I am in favour of our taking a few more days to consider this matter." "And I am against any delay," Fenn objected hotly.
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