The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: impression from your clever imitations of the handwritings of
Barbara, Colonel McIntyre, and Mrs. Brewster."
They crowded about Kent, all but Ferguson and his prisoner, who had
subsided in his chair with what the detective concluded was
dangerous quietude.
"My next step, now that suspicion was directed against Sylvester,
was to make personal inquiries regarding him," went on Kent. "Judge
Hildebrand, who had just returned to Washington, said that he first
met Sylvester at a circus sideshow where he gave exhibitions as a
contortionist. One of his special stunts was to slip out of
handcuffs and ropes."
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