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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "How about the catch of that door?" he inquired jovially. "Any
danger of it going off again?" Really, considering the
circumstances, they were remarkably cheerful. Hotchkiss, however,
was not. He paced the floor uneasily, his hands under his
coat-tails. The arrival of McKnight created a diversion; he carried
a long package and a corkscrew, and shook hands with the police and
opened the bottle with a single gesture.
"I always want something to cheer on these occasions," he said.
"Where's the water, Blakeley? Everybody ready?" Then in French he
toasted the two detectives.
"To your eternal discomfiture," he said, bowing ceremoniously. "May
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