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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: have known the man's name if he heard it. But do you see,
sweetheart, where this is taking us? He went back, and they tried
to get him, for a thing he didn't remember doing."
"Father!" she said, and went very white. "Is that where he is?
In prison?"
He tried to steady his voice.
"No, dear. He escaped into the mountains. But you can understand
his silence. You can understand, too, that he may feel he cannot
come back to us, with this thing hanging over him. What we have to
do now is to find him, and to tell him that it makes no difference.
That he has his place in the world waiting for him, and that we are
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