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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: try the back door."
So we both went down the stairs on tiptoe,
with a fear partly justified and partly that which comes only
from the soul of the weird small hours. The rattling continued,
growing somewhat louder. When we reached the door I cautiously
unbolted it and threw it open, and as the moon streamed revealingly
down on the form silhouetted there, West did a peculiar thing.
Despite the obvious danger of attracting notice and bringing down
on our heads the dreaded police investigation -- a thing which
after all was mercifully averted by the relative isolation of
our cottage -- my friend suddenly, excitedly, and unnecessarily
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