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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: could make his fortune as a game dog. What's he doing?"
McKnight put down his cards, and rising, went to the window. As he
held the curtain back his customary grin looked a little forced.
"To tell you the truth, Lollie," he said, "for the last two days he
has been watching a well-known Washington attorney named Lawrence
Blakeley. He's across the street now."
It took a moment for me to grasp what he meant.
"Why, it's ridiculous," I asserted. "What would they trail me for?
Go over and tell Johnson to get out of there, or I'll pot at him
with my revolver."
"You can tell him that yourself." McKnight paused and bent forward.
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