if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of …

Arthur Conan Doyle
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if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
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if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

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