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The Devil’s Paw

CHAPTER V
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I think, too, that they trust me.

Yet I am not sure that I cannot see a glimmering of what is at the back of Stenson's mind.

There are a good many millions in the country who honestly believe that war is primarily an affair of the politicians; who believe, too, that victory means a great deal more to what they term `the upper classes' than it does to them.

Yet, in every sense of the word, they are bearing an equal portion of the fight, because, when it comes down to human life, the life of the farm labourer's son is of the same intrinsic value as the life of the peer's." Lord Maltenby moved a little in his chair.

There was a slight frown upon his aristocratic forehead.


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