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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: maraschino; while in a silver spirit lamp, coffee of the most
captivating fragrance was preparing in the fashion of the
East. The elder of the two, he who had first arrived, was
placed directly facing me; the other was set on his left
hand. Both, like the man in the butler's pantry, seemed to
be intently listening; and on the face of the second I
thought I could perceive the marks of fear. Oddly enough,
however, when they came to speak, the parts were found to be
reversed.
'I assure you,' said the elder gentleman, 'I not only heard
the slamming of a door, but the sound of very guarded
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