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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: Mr. Holmes is so very particular that the insurance company shall
get no clue to the whereabouts of any member of the Pitezel
family.
Geyer knew that from Indianapolis Holmes had gone to Detroit. He
ascertained that two girls, "Etta and Nellie Canning," had
registered on October 12 at the New Western Hotel in that city,
and from there had moved on the 15th to a boarding-house in
Congress Street. From Detroit Alice had written to her
grandparents. It was cold and wet, she wrote; she and Etta had
colds and chapped hands: "We have to stay in all the time. All
that Nell and I can do is to draw, and I get so tired sitting
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