Chapter 8
THE POCKET-BOOKFinal warning was brief and to the point:
We allow you until tomorrow evening to reconsider your position
in the matter of the Aliens Extradition Bill. If by six o'clock no
announcement is made in the afternoon newspapers of your
withdrawing this measure we shall have no other course to pursue
but to fulfil our promise. You will die at eight in the evening. We
append for your enlightenment a concise table of the secret police
arrangements made for your safety tomorrow. Farewell.
(Signed) four just men
Sir Philip read this over without a tremor. He read too the slip
of paper on which was written, in the strange foreign hand, the
details that the police had not dared to put into writing.
"There is a leakage somewhere," he said, and the two anxious
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