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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: help him. But his mother spared no effort to extricate him from
his difficulties. She begged a highly placed official to plead
with the insistent creditor, but all in vain. There seemed no
hope of a further delay when suddenly, in the October of 1822,
Castaing became the possessor of 100,000 francs. How he became
possessed of this considerable sum of money forms part of a
strange and mysterious story.
Among the friends of Castaing were two young men of about his own
age, Auguste and Hippolyte Ballet. Auguste, the elder, had the
misfortune a few days after his birth to incur his mother's
lasting dislike. The nurse had let the child fall from her arms
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