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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: "It is," replied Ferguson. "And embroidered in one corner is the
initial 'B.'"
Penfield ran his fingers through his gray hair. "You may go,
Ferguson," he said, and beckoned to the morgue master. "Ask Miss
Barbara McIntyre to return."
The girl was quick in answering the summons. Kent, more and more
worried, was watching the scene with painful attention.
"Did Mr. Turnbull have one of your handkerchiefs?" asked Penfield.
Her surprise at the question was manifest in her manner.
"He might have," she said. "I have a dreadful habit of dropping
my handkerchiefs around."
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