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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: Nares reflected. "Nobody can blame Trent after that. I never
got in company with squarer lying; it reminds a man of a
presidential campaign."
"All very well," said I. "That's your Hoyt, and a fine, tall copy.
But what I want to know is, where is Trent's Hoyt?"
"Took it with him," chuckled Nares. "He had left everything
else, bills and money and all the rest; he was bound to take
something, or it would have aroused attention on the Tempest:
'Happy thought,' says he, 'let's take Hoyt.'"
"And has it not occurred to you," I went on, "that all the Hoyts
in creation couldn't have misled Trent, since he had in his hand
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