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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: in snapping short the blade of his knife. For a moment he
stood contemplating the baffling window. He dared not break
the glass for fear of arousing the inmates of the house
which, though he could not see it, might be close at hand.
Presently he recalled a scene he had witnessed on State
Street in Chicago several years before--a crowd standing
before the window of a jeweler's shop inspecting a neat little
hole that a thief had cut in the glass with a diamond and
through which he had inserted his hand and brought forth
several hundred dollars worth of loot. But Barney Custer
wore no diamond--he would as soon have worn a celluloid
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