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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 farmhouse, I - I was panic-stricken. I locked him in and ran.
I didn't know why he did it, but - he had killed a man."
Some one was calling Alison through a megaphone, from the veranda.
It sounded like Sam. "All-ee," he called. "All-ee! I'm going to
have some anchovies on toast! All-ee!" Neither of us heard.
"I wonder," I reflected, "if you would be willing to repeat a part
of that story - just from the telegram on - to a couple of
detectives, say on Monday. If you would tell that, and - how the
end of your necklace got into the sealskin bag - "
"My necklace!" she repeated. "But it isn't mine. I picked it up
in the car."
The Man in Lower Ten | 
