| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: Bailey, alias Thompson," to the Home Office, but whether she
received from that office the price of blood history does not
relate.
The police scouted the idea that any revelation of hers had
assisted them to identify "John Ward" with Charles Peace. They
said that it was information given them in Peckham, no doubt by
Mr. Brion, who, on learning the deplorable character of his
coadjutor, had placed himself unreservedly in their hands, which
first set them on the track. From Peckham they went to
Nottingham, where they no doubt came across Sue Thompson, and
thence to Sheffield, where on November 6 they visited the house
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: marriage or death of Lily, then the whole was to pass to Mary and
her heirs.
These two documents being signed and sealed, I delivered them,
together with all my treasure and other goods, into the keeping of
Captain Bell, charging him solemnly to hand them and my possessions
to Dr. Grimstone of Bungay, by whom he would be liberally rewarded.
This he promised to do, though not until he had urged me almost
with tears to accompany them myself.
With the gold and the deeds I sent several letters; to my father,
my sister, my brother, Dr. Grimstone, Squire Bozard, and lastly to
Lily herself. In these letters I gave an account of my life and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad: Then we hastened up stairs to bed in a room smelling of pine
planks, and I was fast asleep before my head touched the pillow.
In the morning my tutor (he was a student of the Cracow
University) woke me up early, and as we were dressing remarked:
"There seems to be a lot of people staying in this hotel. I have
heard a noise of talking up till eleven o'clock." This statement
surprised me; I had heard no noise whatever, having slept like a
top.
We went down-stairs into the long and narrow dining-room with its
long and narrow table. There were two rows of plates on it. At
one of the many curtained windows stood a tall, bony man with a
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