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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: "No, I haven't seen any one, except old Thomas, who looked for
all the world as if he had been ransacking the pantry. What have
you locked in the laundry?"
"I can't wait to explain," I replied. "I must get Warner from
the lodge. If you came out for air, you'd better put on your
overshoes." And then I noticed that Gertrude was limping--not
much, but sufficiently to make her progress very slow, and
seemingly painful.
"You have hurt yourself," I said sharply.
"I fell over the carriage block," she explained. "I thought
perhaps I might see Halsey coming home. He--he ought to be
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