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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: chatted of household topics and touched lightly on the beauties of
Venice, was Mrs. Thorne. It was Mrs. Thorne, therefore, who,
reluctantly and in anger and distaste, had called Leopold Winkler
to Hietzing, to his death.
And whose hand had fired the shot that caused his death? The
question, at this stage in Muller's meditation, could hardly be
called a question any more. It was all too sadly clear to him now.
Winkler met his death at the hand of the husband, who, discovering
the planned rendezvous, had misunderstood its motive.
For truly this had been no lovers' meeting. It had been a meeting
to which the woman was driven by fear and hate; the man by greed of
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