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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: quietly, breathing easily, wrapped in a slumber as undisturbed as
that of a child. It did not seem possible that any man could lie
there like that with the guilt of murder on his conscience, or even
with the knowledge in his soul that he had plundered a corpse.
Muller had never believed the first to be the case, but he had
thought it possible that Knoll knew perfectly well that it was a
lifeless body he was robbing. He had believed it at least until
the moment when he stood looking down at the sleeping tramp. Now,
with the deep knowledge of the human heart which was his by
instinct and which his profession had increased a thousand-fold,
Muller knew that this man before him had no heavy crime upon his
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