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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: into the basket that still hung by the nail in the door-jamb. I sat
in a chair under the awning and waited. The sun was within two hours
of setting. Chloe came out and looked surprised.
"Where have you been, Tommy?" she asked. "You were gone when I came
out."
"Look in the basket," I said, rising to my feet. She looked, and gave
a little scream--of delight, I was pleased to note.
"Oh, Tommy!" she said. "It was just what I wanted you to do. It's
leaking a little, but that doesn't matter. Wasn't I telling you?
It's the little things that count. And you remembered."
Little things! She held the ensanguined head of Louis Devoe in her
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