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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: log.
"Hey?" cried the doctor, and he raised his hand and looked the
captain in the eyes.
"I don't remember exactly," faltered Wicks.
And at this remarkable falsehood, the suspicions of the doctor
were at once quadrupled.
"By the way, which of you is called Wicks?" he asked easily.
"What's that?" snapped the captain, falling white as paper.
"Wicks," repeated the doctor; "which of you is he? that's surely
a plain question."
Wicks stared upon his questioner in silence.
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