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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: "How the devil do you get to the roof?" he called. "I think I've
broken my nose."
He found the ladder after a short search and stood at the bottom,
looking up at me. "Well, I suppose you haven't seen him?" he
inquired. "There are enough darned cubbyholes in this house to
hide a patrol wagon load of thieves." He lighted a fresh match.
"Hello, here's another door!"
By the sound of his diminishing footsteps I supposed it was a rear
staircase. He came up again in ten minutes or so, this time with
the policeman.
"He's gone, all right," he said ruefully. "If you'd been attending
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