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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: therefore, who were familiar with every form of horrid butchery,
the mere outside horrors of death had lost much of their terror.
In the recent murder there had not been much to call forth
sympathy. The family consisted of two old bachelors, two sisters,
and one grandniece. The niece was absent on a visit, and the two
old men were cynical misers, to whom little personal interest
attached. Still, in this case as in that of the Weishaupts, the
same twofold mystery confounded the public mind--the mystery of the
HOW, and the profounder mystery of the WHY. Here, again, no atom
of property was taken, though both the misers had hordes of ducats
and English guineas in the very room where they died. Their bias,
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