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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: took the lamp from me--I remember that--and then, feeling
myself getting dizzy and light-headed, I closed my eyes. When I
opened them their brief examination was over, and Mr. Jarvis was
trying to put me in a chair.
"You must get up-stairs," he said firmly, "you and Miss Gertrude,
too. This has been a terrible shock. In his own home, too."
I stared at him without comprehension. "Who is it?" I asked with
difficulty. There was a band drawn tight around my throat.
"It is Arnold Armstrong," he said, looking at me oddly, "and he
has been murdered in his father's house."
After a minute I gathered myself together and Mr. Jarvis helped
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