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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: leaving the library I passed the window, saw the policeman, and
called him in." She shot a keen look at the coroner, and added
softly, "The policeman was qualified to make an arrest; my father
would have had to summon one had he been there."
"Quite true," acknowledged Penfield courteously. "Now, Miss
McIntyre, why did the prisoner so obligingly walk straight into
a closet on your arrival in the library?"
"I presume he was looking for a way out of the room and blundered
into it," she explained. "There are seven doors opening from our
library; the prisoner may have heard me approaching, become confused,
and walked through the wrong door."
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