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trust that anyone who troubled to read my 'cher on

the death penalty realised that my hand- Iritio8 had betrayed your compositor into an "asurdity, h What I tried to write was: 'It would [not will] „er a great convenience . . and: 'There are few "! us who would [not will] not benefit from a fort- 1.;g11I's "concentration" ending on the gallows:— aura faithfully, 10 Buckingham Street, WC2

EVELYN WAUGH