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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: been full of significant happenings, had I only held the key.
Had Gertrude been the fugitive in the clothes chute? Who was the
man on the drive near the lodge, and whose gold-mounted dressing-
bag had I seen in the lodge sitting-room?
It was late when Mr. Jamieson finally got up to go. I went with
him to the door, and together we stood looking out over the
valley. Below lay the village of Casanova, with its Old World
houses, its blossoming trees and its peace. Above on the hill
across the valley were the lights of the Greenwood Club. It was
even possible to see the curving row of parallel lights that
marked the carriage road. Rumors that I had heard about the club
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