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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: had slept during the afternoon. Liddy brought me some hot milk
at ten o'clock and I slept until twelve. Then I wakened and--I
got to thinking about things, and worrying, so I could not go to
sleep.
"I was wondering why I had not heard from Arnold since the--since
I saw him that night at the lodge. I was afraid he was ill,
because--he was to have done something for me, and he had
not come back. It must have been three when I heard some one
rapping. I sat up and listened, to be quite sure, and the
rapping kept up. It was cautious, and I was about to call Liddy.
Then suddenly I thought I knew what it was. The east entrance
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