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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: last night?"
He took a step toward her impetuously - and stopped quite as
impetuously. Her revolver had swung to a level with his head.
"Pardon me!" he said.
"Not at all!" she said caustically.
For the first time, as she watched him warily, the Adventurer
appeared to lose some of his self-assurance. He shifted a little
uneasily on his feet, and the corners of his eyes puckered into a
nest of perturbed wrinkles.
"I say, Miss Gray, you can't mean this!" be protested. "You're
not serious!"
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