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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: man's wife, died that night in the hospital. I had found her here
sick, and I had promised not to divulge her secret. I helped her
get to the hospital. She was dying; she was penitent in a way;
she wanted to prevent a crime that she said was to be perpetrated
that night, but she would not inform on her accomplices. She begged
me to forestall them, and return the money anonymously the next day.
That was the choice I had - either to allow the crime to be carried
out, or else swear to act alone in return for the information that
would enable me to keep the money away from the thieves without
bringing the police into it. I - I was caught. You - you saved me
from Rough Rorke, but he followed me. I put on Gypsy Nan's clothes,
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