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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: "Help yourself to the rest!" he invited caustically. "There isn't
fifty thousand there, but you are quite welcome to all there is - in
return for those papers.
The Adventurer was apparently obsessed with an inspection of his
finger nails; he began to polish those of one hand with the palm
of the other.
"Quite so, Danglar!" he said coolly. "I admit it - I am ashamed
of myself. I hate to think that I could be caught by you; but I
suppose I can find some self-extenuating circumstances. You seem
o have risen to an amazingly higher order of intelligence. In fact,
for you, Danglar, it is not at all bad!" He went on polishing his
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