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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: "You might, on foot. They'll be trailing Rickett's horse by dawn.
And if you can get out of town I can get you a horse. I can get
you out, too, I think. I know every foot of the place."
A feeling of theatrical unreality was Bassett's chief emotion
during the trying time that followed. The cloaked and shrouded
figure of the woman ahead, the passage through two dark and empty
rooms by pass key to an unguarded corridor in the rear, the descent
of the fire-escape, where they stood flattened against the wall
while a man, possibly one of the posse, rode in, tied his horse and
stamped in high heeled boots into the building, and always just
ahead the sure movement and silent tread of the woman, kept his
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