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Wrong spacing on failed arrest #58

Open eriktorbjorn opened 5 years ago

eriktorbjorn commented 5 years ago
>ARREST MRS ROBNER
Sergeant Duffy dutifully appears and escorts Mrs. Robner from the grounds.

Text of a letter from Police Commissioner Klutz dated July 26:

Dear Inspector,

    I am sorry to inform you that the District Attorney's office has declined to
seek an indictment against Mrs. Robner in the case of the death of Mr. Robner,
against your recommendation. It is still not clear that Mr. Robner was murdered,
although, as you point out, there are a number of suspicious characters in the
Robner household.
     Please be more careful in the future!

"I am sorry" starts with four spaces. "Please be more careful in the future!" starts with five.

Looking at END-HEADER, it seems like the intention may have been five spaces, but the compiler swallowed one of them because we don't use - and quite possibly do not want to use - the <SETG PRESERVE-SPACES? T> feature.