| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker: which puzzles us."
"In what way?"
"Well, suppose the instinct works on some physical basis--for
instance, smell. If there were anything in recent juxtaposition to
the attacked which would carry the scent, surely that would supply
the missing cause."
"Of course!" Adam spoke with conviction.
"Now, from what you tell me, the negro had just come from the
direction of Diana's Grove, carrying the dead snakes which the
mongoose had killed the previous morning. Might not the scent have
been carried that way?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: "Where are you going, Muller?" asked Herr Von Mayringen.
"To Cathedral Lane, if you will permit it."
"At this hour? it is quarter past eleven! Is there any such hurry,
do you think? There is no train from any of our stations until
morning. And I have already sent a policeman to watch the house.
Besides, I know that Fellner is a highly respected man.
"There is many a man who is highly respected until he is found out,"
remarked the detective.
"And you are going to find out about Fellner?" smiled the
commissioner. "And this evening, too?"
"This very evening. If he is asleep I shall wake him up. That is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: request. He received it affably.
"Mr. Loomis? Go right down to the office at the other end."
He pointed to a kind of box of ground glass and highly polished
panelling.
As she thanked him he turned to one of his companions and said
something in which she caught the name of Mr. Loomis, and which was
received with an appreciative chuckle. She suspected herself of
being the object of the pleasantry, and straightened her thin
shoulders under her mantle.
The door of the office stood open, and within sat a gray-
bearded man at a desk. He looked up kindly, and again she asked
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