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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: was no early morning's light; and upon this, the silence of the house
spoke plainly to me not of man still sleeping, but of man long risen and
gone about his business. I stepped barefoot across the wooden floor to
where lay my watch, but it marked an unearthly hour, for I had neglected
to wind it at the end of our long and convivial evening--of which my head
was now giving me some news. And then I saw a note addressed to me from
John Mayrant.
"You are a good sleeper," it began, "but my conscience is clear as to the
Bombo, called by some Kill-devil, about which I hope you will remember
that I warned you."
He hoped I should remember! Of course I remembered everything; why did he
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