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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: Mrs. Brewster waited until the young secretary had withdrawn out of
earshot before replying; then taking the chair Clymer placed for her
near his own, she opened her gold mesh bag and took out a canceled
check and laid it on the desk in front of the bank president.
"Your bank honored this check?" she asked Yes."
"Who presented it?"
Clymer pressed the buzzer and his secretary came at once.
"Ask Mr. McDonald to step here," and as the man vanished on his
errand, he addressed Mrs. Brewster. "How is Colonel McIntyre this
morning?"
Mrs. Brewster's eyes opened at the question. "Quite well," she
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