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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: all over the place."
"Nonsense!" I said. "Plaster is always falling."
But Liddy clenched that.
"Just ask Alex," she said. "When he put the new cook's trunk
there last night the wall was as smooth as this. This morning
it's dug out, and there's plaster on the cook's trunk. Miss
Rachel, you can get a dozen detectives and put one on every stair
in the house, and you'll never catch anything. There's some
things you can't handcuff."
Liddy was right. As soon as I could, I went up to the trunk-
room, which was directly over my bedroom. The plan of the upper
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