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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: "We have all the proofs we need."
"I will acknowledge only that I wanted Asta to disappear."
Muller smiled. "What good would that have done you? You wanted
her entire fortune, did you not? But that could have come to you
only after thirty years, and you are not likely to have waited that
long. Your plan was to murder your step-sister, even if you could
not get a letter from her telling of her intention to commit suicide."
Langen rose suddenly, but controlled himself again and sank back
easily in his chair. "Then the old woman has been talking?" he
asked.
Muller shook his head. "We knew it through Miss Langen herself."
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