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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: So that was it! This was the girl of the photograph on John
Gilmore's bedside table. The girl McKnight expected to see in
Richmond the next day, Sunday! She was on her way back to meet him!
Well, what difference did it make, anyhow? We had been thrown
together by the merest chance. In an hour or two at the most we
would be back in civilization and she would recall me, if she
remembered me at all, as an unshaven creature in a red cravat and
tan shoes, with a soiled Pullman sheet tied around my neck. I drew
a deep breath.
"Just a twinge," I said, when she glanced up quickly. "It's very
good of you to let me know, Miss West. I have been hearing
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