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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "Not quite that," he said, with his friendly smile. "In fact,
Miss Innes, I am quite certain she did not. But as long as I
learn only parts of the truth, from both you and her, what can I
do? I know you picked up something in the flower bed: you refuse
to tell me what it was. I know Miss Gertrude went back to the
billiard-room to get something, she refuses to say what. You
suspect what happened to the cuff-link, but you won't tell me.
So far, all I am sure of is this: I do not believe Arnold
Armstrong was the midnight visitor who so alarmed you by
dropping--shall we say, a golf-stick? And I believe that when he
did come he was admitted by some one in the house. Who knows--it
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