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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: details - when I found that I had been forestalled by the young
lady, who, the papers say, is known as the White Moll." He smiled
whimsically. "Even though one might be a slick crook as you
suggest, it is no reason why he should fail in his duty to himself
- as a gentleman. What other course was open to me? I discovered
a very charming young lady in the grip of a hulking police brute.
She also, apparently, took liberties with the law. There was a
bond between us. I - er - took it upon myself to do what I could.
And, besides, I was not insensible to the fact that I was under a
certain obligation to her, quixotic as it may sound, in view of
the fact that we were evidently competitors after the same game.
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