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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: When she came in she was holding something in her hand, and she
laid it on the dressing-table carefully.
"I found it in the linen hamper," she said. "It must be Mr.
Halsey's, but it seems queer how it got there."
It was the half of a link cuff-button of unique design, and I
looked at it carefully.
"Where was it? In the bottom of the hamper?" I asked.
"On the very top," she replied. "It's a mercy it didn't fall out
on the way."
When Liddy had gone I examined the fragment attentively. I had
never seen it before, and I was certain it was not Halsey's. It
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