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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: three-quarters of an hour. After that you can rejoin me on the
field of glory.'
So saying, Michael returned to the studio. It was the morning of
the easterly gale; the wind blew shrilly among the statues in the
garden, and drove the rain upon the skylight in the studio
ceiling; and at about the same moment of the time when Morris
attacked the hundredth version of his uncle's signature in
Bloomsbury, Michael, in Chelsea, began to rip the wires out of
the Broadwood grand.
Three-quarters of an hour later Pitman was admitted, to find the
closet-door standing open, the closet untenanted, and the piano
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