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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: the berth. Now he got up without apology, revealing the man who
had summoned the conductor. He was dusty, alert, cheerful, and he
dragged up with him the dead man's suit-case. The sight of it
brought back to me at once my own predicament.
"I don't know whether there's any connection or not, conductor," I
said, "but I am a victim, too, in less degree; I've been robbed of
everything I possess, except a red and yellow bath-robe. I happened
to be wearing the bath-robe, which was probably the reason the thief
overlooked it."
There was a fresh murmur in the crowd. Some body laughed nervously.
The conductor was irritated.
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