Ten minutes later Ferris stood in the telephone box at the Church Street Post Office. A voice spoke sharply in his ear.
"Daily Wire, London."
"Ferris speaking. Put me through to Miss Cavell, please." The telephone clicked.
"Is that you, Miss Cavell? William Ferris speaking.... Dictation please: " 'To-night the Eastrepps Evil has stalked again. That is the appalling message which the special correspondent of the Daily Wire is enabled to place exclusively before its readers this morning...' "
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MR. THOMAS ACKERSLEY, M.P. for East Norfolk, was walking briskly down Whitehall from Trafalgar Square. The session, he was glad to remember, was drawing to an end. He would be in Yorkshire on the 12th, with two solid months of recreation in front of him. He hoped Lawson's grouse were better than
