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I was not the only one to tremble now. This man of infinite experience and / daily contact with crime had turned as pale as ever I myself had done in face / of a threatening calamity.
"I shall see about this," he muttered, crumpling the paper in his hand. "But / this is a very terrible business you are plunging me into. I sincerely hope / that you are not heedlessly misleading me."