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The 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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