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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "Yes," said Bassett, noncommittally.
"And it blew up on you! Well, there were others who were fooled,
too. You had a holiday, anyhow."
"Yes, I had a holiday," said Bassett, and going over to his own
desk began to sort his vast accumulation of mail. Sometime later
he found the night editor at his elbow.
"Did you get anything on the Clark business at all?" he asked.
"Williams thinks there's a page in it for Sunday, anyhow. You've
been on the ground, and there's a human interest element in it. The
last man who talked to Clark; the ranch to-day. That sort of thing."
Bassett went on doggedly sorting his mail.
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