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Correspondence from Wilfred Talbot Smith to Max Schneider
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[19 March 1936]
I am not surprised at all about Wayne Walker. At the same time, anything he says means nothing. If anything should happen to make him feel the draught he will come running back, and then you can jump with both feet and make him do whatever you want, taking care that he has no loop-hole of escape. These people are all the same, even when they are hardened by long years of successful crime. What they cannot overcome is the consciousness of guilt. Even when they have everyone else completely buffaloed, there is that sinking feeling in the small hours of the morning, and they are likely to collapse before any one, however humble, who sees through them. They employ all the tactics of a hunted animal, even when there is no one on their trail.
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