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Authors: G. K. Chesterton
ISBN-13: 9781162698281, ISBN-10: 1162698284
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Company
Date Published: September 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)
As Ivan explained to the guests, their host had telephoned that he was detained for ten minutes. He was, in truth, making some last arrangements about executions and such ugly things; and though these duties were rootedly repulsive to him, he always performed them with precision. Ruthless in the pursuit of criminals, he was very mild about their punishment.