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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: believe that the money was gone; in fact, it was hardly possible
in the interval since the securities had been taken. Where was
it? And from some chance remark let fall some months earlier by
Arnold Armstrong at a dinner, Bailey felt sure there was a hidden
room at Sunnyside. He tried to see the architect of the
building, but, like the contractor, if he knew of the such a room
he
refused any information. It was Halsey's idea that John
Bailey come to the house as a gardener, and pursue his
investigations as he could. His smooth upper lip had been
sufficient disguise, with his change of clothes, and a hair-cut
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