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The Devil’s Paw

CHAPTER IX
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It must be won, if ever, by moral sacrifice and not with blood." "Then explain to me," he begged, "exactly what you are doing?
What your reason is for being in communication with the German Government?
Remember that the dispatch I intercepted came from no private person in Germany.

It came from those in authority." "That again is not true," she replied.

"I would ask for permission to explain all these things to you, if it were not so hopeless." "The case of your friends will probably be more hopeless still," he reminded her, "after to-night." She shrugged her shoulders.
"We shall see," she said solemnly.

"The Russian revolution surprised no one.

Perhaps an English revolution would shake even your self-confidence." He made no reply.


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