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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: a wild career there, and although Elihu had tied up the property
until Jud was twenty-one, Jud had his mother's estate and a big
allowance. Then, too, he borrowed on his prospects, and he lost
a hundred thousand dollars at Monte Carlo within six weeks after
he graduated.
"One way and another he was always in the newspapers, and when he
saw how Jud was throwing money away Clifton went wild.
"As Henry had burned the letters he had no proofs. He didn't know
who his mother was, but he set to work to find out. He ferreted
into Elihu's past life, and he learned something about Hattie
Burgess, or Thorwald. She was married by that time, and lived on
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