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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: your absence.'
'That you shall have!' said the old gentleman, and, taking up his
forage cap as he spoke, he crammed it on his head. 'Perhaps you
are too insolent,' he added, 'to inform me of the time of the
next London train?'
'It leaves in three-quarters of an hour,' returned the innkeeper
with alacrity. 'You can easily catch it.'
Joseph's position was one of considerable weakness. On the one
hand, it would have been well to avoid the direct line of
railway, since it was there he might expect his nephews to lie in
wait for his recapture; on the other, it was highly desirable, it
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