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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "Not as well as the original."
"Well, I'm very sorry," I said, as calmly as I could, "I--the
thing is lost. It--it must have fallen out of a box on my
dressing-table."
Whatever he thought of my explanation, and I knew he doubted it,
he made no sign. He asked me to describe the link
accurately, and I did so, while he glanced at a list he took from
his pocket.
"One set monogram cuff-links," he read, "one set plain pearl
links, one set cuff-links, woman's head set with diamonds and
emeralds. There is no mention of such a link as you describe,
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