[PW] ? flee at once ...

[Even Flood]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:38 AM,  <blau7103 at comcast.net> wrote:
> The story that someone once sent a telegram to some friends saying "all is discovered, flee at once," and one or more of them left town is often attributed to Mark Twain, and sometimes to Arthur Conan Doyle or G. K. Chesterton . . . can anyone provide a source citation that would make this more than apocryphal?
>

One candidate is Doyle's story "The Gloria Scott" where the following
note is sent: "The game is up. Hudson has told all. Fly for you life."
The receipent does indeed fly.

In Chesterton's "The Man who was Thursday" Sunday sends this message:
"Fly at once. The truth about your trouser-strechers is known. A
Friend". This does only add to the confusion in a chase, naturally
enough.

Even

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