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A week went by after the conversation between the Chief Commissioner of Police and Gilbert Larose, and then one crisp November morning the latter arrived at Mortimer Fairfax's chambers in Lincoln Inn's Fields, and asked to see the K.C.
He was not kept waiting long, and then directly he was ushered into Fairfax's room, the latter remarked drily: "More sentences of death, I suppose, Mr. Larose, and the day of execution getting nearer!"