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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: speculation, Mr. Almayer. Now we want this Dain. We have good
grounds to suppose he is hiding in Sambir. Do you know
where he is? You had better put yourself right with the
authorities as much as possible by being perfectly frank with me.
Where is this Dain?"
Almayer got up and walked towards the balustrade of the verandah.
He seemed not to be thinking of the officer's question. He
looked at the body laying straight and rigid under its white
cover on which the sun, declining amongst the clouds to the
westward, threw a pale tinge of red. The lieutenant waited for
the answer, taking quick pulls at his half-extinguished cigar.
Almayer's Folly | 
