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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad: Chief Inspector Heat himself actually came to tell you."
"Yes," she confirmed in the same listless tone. "He came just like
this. He came. I didn't know. He showed me a piece of overcoat,
and - just like that. Do you know this? he says."
"Heat! Heat! And what did he do?"
Mrs Verloc's head dropped. "Nothing. He did nothing. He went
away. The police were on that man's side," she murmured
tragically. "Another one came too."
"Another - another inspector, do you mean?" asked Ossipon, in great
excitement, and very much in the tone of a scared child.
"I don't know. He came. He looked like a foreigner. He may have
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