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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: the woman, and against Somerset, whose idle counsels had
impelled him to embark on that adventure. At the same time a
great and troubled curiosity, and a certain chill of fear,
possessed his spirit. The conduct of the man with the chin-
beard, the terms of the letter, and the explosion of the
early morning, fitted together like parts in some obscure and
mischievous imbroglio. Evil was certainly afoot; evil,
secrecy, terror, and falsehood were the conditions and the
passions of the people among whom he had begun to move, like
a blind puppet; and he who began as a puppet, his experience
told him, was often doomed to perish as a victim.
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