[The Devil’s Paw by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Devil’s Paw CHAPTER XXII 6/9
If I do so now, will you please understand that if you think it best you need not answer me ?" "Certainly," Catherine replied. "From what source did you get your information which saved us all ?" "It came to me from a man who is dead," was the quiet answer. The Bishop looked steadily ahead at the row of signal lights. "There was a young foreigner, some weeks ago," he said "a Baron Hellman--quite a distinguished person, I believe--who was discovered shot in his rooms." She acquiesced silently. "If you were to go to the Home Office and were able to persuade them to treat you candidly, I think that you could discover some wonderful things," she confided.
"I wish I could believe that the Baron was the only one who has been living in this country, unsuspected, and occupying a prominent position, who was really in the pay of Germany." "It was a very subtle conspiracy," the Bishop remarked thoughtfully, "subtle because, in a sense, it appeared so genuine.
It appealed to the very best instincts of thinking men." "Good has come out of it, at any rate," she reminded him.
"Westminster Buildings is now the centre of patriotic England.
Labour was to have brought the war to an end--for Germany.
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