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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: diecks.
"The boss told me to tell you he's sorry," said the boy,
"but your manuscript ain't available for the magazine."
Slayton stood, dazed. "Can you tell me," he stammered,
"whether or no Miss Puff -- that is my -- I mean Miss
ruffkin -- handed in a novelette this morning that she
had been asked to read?"
"Sure she did," answered the office boy wisely. "I
heard the old man say that Miss Puffkin said it was a
daisy. The name of it was, 'Married for the Mazuma,
or a Working Girl's Triumph.'"
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