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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: That afternoon Muller passed through Horn's office with a bundle
of papers, on his way to the inner office occupied by his patron,
Chief of Police Bauer. Horn, who had avoided Muller since yesterday
although he was conscious of a freshened interest in the man, raised
his head and watched the little detective as he walked across the
room with his usual quiet tread. The commissioner saw nothing but
the usual humble business-like manner to which he was accustomed
- then suddenly something happened that came to him like a distinct
shock. Muller stopped in his walk so suddenly that one foot was
poised in the air. His bowed head was thrown back, his face
flushed to his forehead, and the papers trembled in his hands. He
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