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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: CHAPTER XXIX
IN THE DINING-ROOM
That was Saturday night, two weeks after the wreck. The previous
five days had been full of swift-following events - the woman in
the house next door, the picture in the theater of a man about to
leap from the doomed train, the dinner at the Dallases, and Richey's
discovery that Alison was the girl in the case. In quick succession
had come our visit to the Carter place, the finding of the rest of
the telegram, my seeing Alison there, and the strange interview with
Mrs. Conway. The Cresson trip stood out in my memory for its
serio-comic horrors and its one real thrill. Then - the discovery
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