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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: a little better I drove him over in Carter's milk wagon to the
Carter place, and I reckon he stayed there a spell."
"That's all, is it?" I asked.
"That's all - or, no, there's something else. About noon that day
one of the Carter twins came down with a note from him asking me to
send a long-distance message to some one in Washington."
"To whom?" I asked eagerly.
"I reckon I've forgot the name, but the message was that this fellow
- Sullivan was his name - was at M-, and if the man had escaped
from the wreck would he come to see him."
"He wouldn't have sent that message to me," I said to McKnight,
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