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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: went, the four of us, in the machine, preferring the execrable
roads to the matinee train, with half of Casanova staring at us.
And on the way we decided to say nothing of Louise and her
interview with her stepbrother the night he died. The girl was
in trouble enough as it was.
CHAPTER XVII
A HINT OF SCANDAL
In giving the gist of what happened at the inquest, I have only
one excuse--to recall to the reader the events of the night of
Arnold Armstrong's murder. Many things had occurred which were
not brought out at the inquest and some things were told there
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