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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: everybody knows when they come in. Mr. Cutter showed his
wife's ticket to the conductor, and settled her in her seat
before the train moved off. It was not until nearly nightfall
that she discovered she was on the express bound for Kansas City,
that her ticket was made out to that point, and that Cutter
must have planned it so. The conductor told her the Black
Hawk train was due at Waymore twelve minutes after the Kansas
City train left. She saw at once that her husband had played
this trick in order to get back to Black Hawk without her.
She had no choice but to go on to Kansas City and take the first
fast train for home.
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