|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: he don't. He's a curious sort of fellow, anyway."
"But how is he mixed up in it?" demanded Thorpe, impatiently.
"Well, as nearly as I can figure it out, he works for one
of the men that's at the head of this rubber company.
It appears that he happened to show this man--he's a man
of title, by the way--a letter I wrote to him last spring,
when I got back to Mexico--and so in that way this man,
when he wanted me to come over, just told Gafferson to cable
to me."
"Gafferson," Thorpe repeated, very slowly, and with almost
an effect of listlessness. He was conscious of no surprise;
The Market-Place |
