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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: to warn him."
"Nonsense!" I said, as briskly as I could. "We are making a lot
of trouble out of something perhaps very small. Halsey was
probably late--he is always late. Any moment we may hear the car
coming up the road."
But it did not come. After a half-hour of suspense, Louise went
out quietly, and did not come back. I hardly knew she was gone
until I heard the station hack moving off. At eleven o'clock the
telephone rang. It was Mr. Jamieson.
"I have found the Dragon Fly, Miss Innes," he said. "It has
collided with a freight car on the siding above the station. No,
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