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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: these he added a note which he wrote after Harkness was gone. At
eleven he called at the Richards' house and knocked. Mrs. Richards
peeped through the shutters, then went and received the envelope,
and the stranger disappeared without a word. She came back flushed
and a little unsteady on her legs, and gasped out:
"I am sure I recognised him! Last night it seemed to me that maybe
I had seen him somewhere before."
"He is the man that brought the sack here?"
"I am almost sure of it."
"Then he is the ostensible Stephenson too, and sold every important
citizen in this town with his bogus secret. Now if he has sent
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