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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: had come our visit to the Carter place, the finding of the rest of
the telegram, my seeing Alison there, and the strange interview with
Mrs. Conway. The Cresson trip stood out in my memory for its
serio-comic horrors and its one real thrill. Then - the discovery
by the police of the seal-skin bag and the bit of chain; Hotchkiss
producing triumphantly Stuart for Sullivan and his subsequent
discomfiture; McKnight at the station with Alison, and later the
confession that he was out of the running.
And yet, when I thought it all over, the entire week and its events
were two sides of a triangle that was narrowing rapidly to an apex,
a point. And the said apex was at that moment in the drive below
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