| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and at the sight that confronted her staggered to her
feet with a little shriek of fear. Then they closed upon her
with a rush. Lifting her bodily in his long, gorilla-like arms,
one of the creatures turned and bore her into the jungle.
A filthy paw covered her mouth to stifle her screams.
Added to the weeks of torture she had already undergone,
the shock was more than she could withstand. Shattered nerves
collapsed, and she lost consciousness.
When she regained her senses she found herself in the
thick of the primeval forest. It was night. A huge fire burned
brightly in the little clearing in which she lay. About it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of the Registered Letter by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: "Then you believe - that it was just a case of murder for robbery?
For the money? And John had some valuable jewelry, I know that."
"I do not know yet," replied Muller slowly, "but I will find out,
I generally do."
"Oh, to think that I should have done that poor man such an
injustice! It is terrible, terrible! This house has been ghastly
these days. His poor aunt knows that he is innocent - she could
never believe otherwise - she has felt the hideous suspicion in my
mind - it has made her suffering worse - will they ever forgive me?"
"Her joy, if I can free her nephew, will make her forget everything.
Go to her now, Miss Roemer, comfort her with the assurance that you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: In the case of the Peltzer brothers we have a man who is of good
social position, falling desperately in love with the wife of a
successful barrister. The wife, though unhappy in her domestic
life, refuses to become her lover's mistress; marriage is the
only way to secure her. So Armand Peltzer plots to murder the
husband. For this purpose he calls in the help of a brother, a
ne'er-do-well, who has left his native country under a cloud. He
sends for this dubious person to Europe, and there between them
they plan the murder of the inconvenient husband. Though the
idea of the crime comes from the one brother, the other receives
the idea without repugnance and enters wholeheartedly into the
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