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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: lurking in the background. I went to Cloran, the house detective
at the hotel here in New York where Deemer was murdered. He
described the woman. She was the same woman that had been with
you. I went to the authorities and showed my credentials, with
which the young rajah had seen to it I was supplied from very
high sources indeed. I did not wish to interfere with the
authorities in their handling of the case; but, on the other hand,
I had no wish to sit down idly and watch them, and it was necessary
therefore that I should protect myself in anything I did. I also
made. myself known to one of New York's assistant district attorneys,
who was an old friend of my father's. And then, Danglar, I started
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