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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: exhilaration bordering on madness packed his bag, and as he packed
it addressed it, after the fashion of lonely men the world over.
"Just one more trip, friend cowhide," he said, "and then you and
I are going to settle down again to work. But it's some trip,
old arm-breaker."
He put in his pajamas and handkerchiefs, his clean socks and
collars, and then he got his revolver from a drawer and added it.
Just twenty-four hours later he knocked at Dick's door in a
boarding-house on West Ninth Street, found it unlocked, and went
in. Dick was asleep, and Bassett stood looking down at him with
an odd sort of paternal affection. Finally he bent down and touched
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