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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: other crime in the calendar (except arson) that I don't seem
somehow to have committed. And yet I'm a perfectly respectable
man, and wished nothing but my due. Law is a pretty business.'
With this conclusion firmly seated in his mind, Morris Finsbury
descended to the hall of the house in John Street, still
half-shaven. There was a letter in the box; he knew the
handwriting: John at last!
'Well, I think I might have been spared this,' he said bitterly,
and tore it open.
Dear Morris [it ran], what the dickens do you mean by it? I'm in
an awful hole down here; I have to go on tick, and the parties on
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