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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: I squirmed miserably and tried to avoid the startled eyes of the
girl across the table. I wanted to choke McKnight and murder the
rest of the party.
"It isn't fair," I said as coolly as I could. "I have my fingers
crossed; you are five against one."
"And to think that there was a murder on that very train," broke
in the lady in yellow. "It was a perfect crescendo of horrors,
wasn't it? And what became of the murdered man, Mr. Blakeley?"
McKnight had the sense to jump into the conversation and save my
reply.
"They say good Pittsburgers go to Atlantic City when they die," he
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