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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: paneling and its dainty breakfast table. But a slight shiver ran
through the commissioner's frame as he realised that some misfortune,
some crime even might be waiting for them on the other side of the
closed door. The bedroom door also was locked on the inside, and
after some moments of knocking and calling, Horn set the hatchet to
the framework just as the bell of the house-door pealed out.
With a cracking and tearing of wood the bedroom door fell open, and
in the same moment Muller and the physician passed through the
dining-room. Johann hurried into the bedroom to open the
window-shutters, and the others gathered in the doorway. A single
look showed each of the men that the bed was untouched, and they
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