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"Dear Wynn," the note ran: "One of your Russian friends called here to-night, and wanted your address, which of course was not given. I saw him a big surly-looking man, who speaks German fairly well, but would not state his business so I promised to send enclosed on to you. "Hope you're pulling round all right! "Yours sincerely, "WALTER FENNING." A big surly-looking man. Could it be Mishka?
The criminal practitioner dwelt in an atmosphere tainted alike with cruelty and crime, and pulsating alternately with merciless decrees of death, and the shrieks and wailings of sentenced guilt. And not always guilt! There exist many records of proofs, incontestable, but obtained too late, of innocence having been legally strangled on the gallows in other cases than that of Eliza Fenning.
Under any other circumstances I could have done with a run home; but even while I read the letter I decided that Southbourne would have to entrust the matter whatever it might be to some one else. I opened the second letter, a typed note, signed by Fenning the news editor, enclosing one of the printed slips on which chance callers have to write their name and business.
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