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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: the broken remnants of West’s bottles and instruments around us.
Only an open window told what had become of our assailant, and
many wondered how he himself had fared after the terrific leap
from the second story to the lawn which he must have made. There
were some strange garments in the room, but West upon regaining
consciousness said they did not belong to the stranger, but were
specimens collected for bacteriological analysis in the course
of investigations on the transmission of germ diseases. He ordered
them burnt as soon as possible in the capacious fireplace. To
the police we both declared ignorance of our late companion’s
identity. He was, West nervously said, a congenial stranger whom
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