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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: anyhow. But the notes - that's different. They are not burned,
anyhow. Your man wasn't on the train - therefore, he wasn't in the
wreck. If he didn't know what he was taking, as you seem to think,
he probably reads the papers, and unless he is a fathead, he's
awake by this time to what he's got. He'll try to sell them to
Bronson, probably."
"Or to us," I put in.
We said nothing for a few minutes. McKnight smoked a cigarette and
stared at a photograph of Candida over the mantel. Candida is the
best pony for a heavy mount in seven states.
"I didn't go to Richmond," he observed finally. The remark followed
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