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The Devil’s Paw

CHAPTER XIX
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"We set out to fight for democracy--your cause.
That fight would be a failure if we allowed the proudest, the most autocratic, the most conscienceless despot who ever sat upon a throne to remain in his place." "But that is just what we shall not do," Fenn interrupted.

"Freistner has assured us of that.

The peace is not the Kaiser's peace.

It is the peace of the Socialist Party in Germany, and the day the terms are proclaimed, democracy there will score its first triumph." "I find neither in the European Press nor in the reports of our secret service agents the slightest warrant for any such supposition," Mr.
Stenson pronounced with emphasis.
"You have read Freistner's letter ?" Fenn asked.
"Every word of it," the Prime Minister replied.

"I believe that Freistner is an honest man, as honest as any of you, but I think that he is mistaken.


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