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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: forget these horrible days, when I had already come to accept it as
a fact that - that I was to be murdered."
"This is the man to whom you owe your escape," said the commissioner,
laying his hand on Muller's knee. Asta did not speak, but she
reached out in the darkness of the cab, caught Muller's hand and
would have raised it to her lips, had not the little man drawn it
away hastily." It was only my duty, dear young lady," he said.
"A duty that is not onerous when it means the rescue of innocence
and the preventing of crime. It is not always so, unfortunately
- nor am I always so fortunate as in this case."
This indeed is what Muller calls a "case with a happy ending," for
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