| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: there for you. That's where we're going now. There's no chance at
those rajah's jewels now; there's no chance of fixing Cloran so's
you can swell it around in the open again - the only chance we've
got is to save what we can and beat it!"
She did not need to simulate either excitement or disquiet.
"What is it? What's happened?" she asked tensely.
"The gang's thrown us down!" he said between his teeth. "They're
scared; they've got cold feet - they're going to quit. Shluker and
Pinkie were with me at the iron plant. We went back to Matty's
from there. Matty's with them, too. They say the Pug knows every
one of us, and every game we've pulled, and that in revenge for our
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart: it on the dressing table when I undressed. I meant to put it
under my pillow, but I forgot. And I didn't sleep well; I was
awake half the night. Wasn't I, Dal? Then, when the clock
downstairs in the hall was chiming five, something roused me, and
I sat up in bed. It was still dark, but I pinched Dal and said
there was somebody in the room. You remember that, don't you,
Dal?"
"I thought you had nightmare,:" he said sheepishly.
"I lay still for ages, it seemed to me, and then--the door into
the hall closed. I heard the catch click. I turned on the light
over the bed then, and the room was empty. I thought of my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: Trampas's; but they were following him less compactly. They
carried one piece of cheese, the size of a fist, the weight of a
brick, the hue of a corpse. And the passengers, seeing it,
exclaimed, "There's Old Faithful again!" and took off their hats.
"You gentlemen met that cheese before, then?" said Scipio,
delighted.
"It's been offered me three times a day for four days," said the
passenger. "Did he want a dollar or a dollar and a half?"
"Two dollars!" blurted out the enthusiast. And all of us save
Trampas fell into fits of imbecile laughter.
"Here comes our grub, anyway," said Scipio, looking off toward
The Virginian |
