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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: uneasily on his feet, and the corners of his eyes puckered into a
nest of perturbed wrinkles.
"I say, Miss Gray, you can't mean this!" be protested. "You're
not serious!"
"I have told you that I am," she answered steadily. "Those three
minutes that I gave you are going fast."
"Then look here!" he exclaimed earnestly. "I'll tell you something.
I said I had been trying to find you to-night. It was the truth.
I went to Gypsy Nan's - and might have been spared my pains. I
told her about last night, and that I knew you were in danger, and
that I wanted to help you. I mention this so that you will
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