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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: be a document of the greatest importance, as important, indeed, as the
letter itself, since we could depend upon it finally to clear up this
point on which we differ. You will admit so much, I think?"
"Why, yes," she answered, but her voice faltered a little, and her
glance was not quite so fearless. She, too, saw at last the pit he
had dug for her. He leaned forward, smiling quietly, his voice
impressively subdued, and launched the bolt that was to annihilate the
credibility of the story she had told.
"Can you, then, explain how it comes that that wrapper has been
suppressed? Can you tell us how - the matter being as you state it - in
very self-defence against the dangers of keeping such a letter, your
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