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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: Halsey's disappearance. But here, as in every, direction I
turned, I was baffled.
A neat maid answered the bell, but she stood squarely in the
doorway, and it was impossible to preserve one's dignity and pass
her.
"Miss Armstrong is very ill, and unable to see any one," she
said. I did not believe her.
"And Mrs. Armstrong--is she also ill?"
"She is with Miss Louise and can not be disturbed."
"Tell her it is Miss Innes, and that it is a matter of the
greatest importance."
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