[The Vanished Messenger by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Vanished Messenger CHAPTER XVII 19/21
Suffering and death are things of joy to me.
There!" "I am not sure," Mr.Dunster said slowly, "that I ought not to wring your neck." Mr.Fentolin smiled.
His chair receded an inch or two.
There was never a time when his expression had seemed more seraphic. "There is no emergency of that sort," he remarked, "for which I am not prepared." His little revolver gleamed for a minute beneath his cuff.
He backed his chair slowly and with wonderful skill towards the door. "We will fix the period of your probation, Mr.Dunster, at--say, twenty-four hours," he decided.
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