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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: Taken as a whole, the personal belongings were those of a man of
some means, but without any particular degree of breeding. The
doctor heaped them together.
"Either robbery was not the motive," he reflected, "or the thief
overlooked these things in his hurry."
The latter hypothesis seemed the more tenable, when, after a
thorough search, we found no pocketbook and less than a dollar in
small change.
The suit-case gave no clue. It contained one empty leather-covered
flask and a pint bottle, also empty, a change of linen and some
collars with the laundry mark, S. H. In the leather tag on the
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