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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: "No danger. I haven't money enough for that," replied Amster with
a sad smile. Muller did not hear him as he was already outside.
But the commissioner with whom he had been talking and to whom
Muller had already spoken of his voluntary assistant, entered into
a conversation with Amster, and said to him finally: "I will take
it upon myself to guarantee your future, if you are ready to enter
the secret service under Muller's orders. If you wish to do this
you can stay right on now, for I think we will need you in this case."
Amster bowed in agreement. His life had been troubled, his
reputation darkened by no fault of his own, and the work he was
doing now had awakened, an interest and an ability that he did not
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