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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: Which one is it?"
Tom says:
"This late dead man here--Jubiter Dunlap."
Then there was another thundering let-go of astonishment
and excitement; but Jubiter, which was astonished enough before,
was just fairly putrified with astonishment this time.
And he spoke up, about half crying, and says:
"Now THAT'S a lie. Your honor, it ain't fair;
I'm plenty bad enough without that. I done the other
things--Brace he put me up to it, and persuaded me,
and promised he'd make me rich, some day, and I done it,
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