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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: room in which the murder was committed."
He stopped and looked up at me, waiting for more.
"Go on; tell me about it, and what followed." My lips formed the
words; my heart beat too faintly for my breath to utter them.
"About the murder itself there is not much to tell. The man, I
believe, was an inhuman scoundrel, and the woman first killed him
in desperation, and afterwards herself in despair. The only detail
connected with the actual crime of which I have ever heard, was the
gale that was blowing that night--the fiercest known to this
countryside in that generation; and it has always been said since
that any misfortune to the Mervyns--especially any misfortune
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