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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: betraying them to Mr. Burgess, it would show in her manner. They
asked her some questions--questions which were so random and
incoherent and seemingly purposeless that the girl felt sure that
the old people's minds had been affected by their sudden good
fortune; the sharp and watchful gaze which they bent upon her
frightened her, and that completed the business. She blushed, she
became nervous and confused, and to the old people these were plain
signs of guilt--guilt of some fearful sort or other--without doubt
she was a spy and a traitor. When they were alone again they began
to piece many unrelated things together and get horrible results out
of the combination. When things had got about to the worst Richards
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