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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: of our Lord, plead for me! let me be with my dear mistress when
the terrible time comes and they take her husband away from her,
or, if preferring death to disgrace, he ends his life by his own
hand!"
CHAPTER XI
IN THE POLICE COURT
Commissioner Von Riedau sat at his desk late that evening,
finishing up some important papers. The quiet of an undisturbed
night watch had settled down on the busy police station. An
occasional low murmur of whispering voices floated up from the
guardroom below, but otherwise the stillness was broken only by
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