[PW] ? flee at once ...

Tue May 27 04:50:42 PDT 2008

Snopes has considered this question and has some interesting information, including a couple of anecdotes that involve Conan Doyle , although nothing definitive --
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=19954

Wendy Miller

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Subject: [PW] ? flee at once ...

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?

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