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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: account of why he was on the train, and all that, it - it would
help, wouldn't it?"
I acknowledged that it would. Now that the whole truth was almost
in my possession, I was stricken with the old cowardice. I did
not want to know what she might tell me. The yellow line on the
horizon, where the moon was coming up, was a broken bit of golden
chain: my heel in the sand was again pressed on a woman's yielding
fingers: I pulled myself together with a jerk.
"In order that what you might tell me may help me, if it will," I
said constrainedly, "it would be necessary, perhaps, that you tell
it to the police. Since they have found the end of the necklace - "
The Man in Lower Ten |
