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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad: generally trusted of that there could be no doubt. "Whenever I've
had reason to think there was something in the wind," he concluded,
"I've always found he could tell me something worth knowing."
The Assistant Commissioner made a significant remark.
"He failed you this time."
"Neither had I wind of anything in any other way," retorted Chief
Inspector Heat. "I asked him nothing, so he could tell me nothing.
He isn't one of our men. It isn't as if he were in our pay."
"No," muttered the Assistant Commissioner. "He's a spy in the pay
of a foreign government. We could never confess to him."
"I must do my work in my own way," declared the Chief Inspector.
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