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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: go, I say."
Clymer aided the detective in freeing himself. "Sit down, Kent,"
he said sternly. "Ferguson meant no offense. Go ahead, man, and
tell us the rest of your theories."
It was some minutes, however, before the detective had collected
sufficient breath to answer intelligently.
"I size it up this way," he began with a resentful glance at Kent
who had dropped back in his chair again. "Rochester knew his
friend had heart disease and that his sudden death would be
attributed to it - so he took a sporting chance and administered
a fatal dose of aconitine."
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