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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: father. It was old Berner who could tell him the most about these
long-vanished days.
When he reached his office at headquarters again, he found telegrams
in great number awaiting him. They were from all the hospitals and
insane asylums in the entire district. But in none of them had
there been a patient fitting the description of the vanished girl.
Neither the commissioner nor Muller was surprised at this negative
result. They were also not surprised at all that the other branches
of the police department had been able to discover so little about
the disappearance of the young lady. They were aware that they
had to deal with a criminal of great ability who would be careful
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