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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: drooping head and lifted up the half-closed eyelids. The eyes
were glazed.
The others looked on in silence. Horn was very pale, and his
usually calm face showed great emotion. Johann seemed quite beside
himself, the tears rolled down his cheeks unhindered. Muller stood
without a sign of life, his sallow face seemed made of bronze; he
was watching and listening. He seemed to hear and see what no one
else could see or hear. He smiled slightly when the doctor spoke
of "heart disease," and his eyes fell on the revolver that lay near
the dead man's hand on the desk. Then he shook his head, and then
he started suddenly. Horn noticed the movement; it was in the moment
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