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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: "What makes you so anxious to know?"
Rhoda Gray laughed shortly.
"Nothin'!" she answered coolly. "I told youse once, didn't I? I
got a scare readin' dem papers - an' I ain't over it yet. Dat's
wot I want to know for, an' youse seem afraid to open up!"
Shluker sank back again in his chair with an air of relief.
"Oh!" he ejaculated. "Well, that's all right, then. You were
beginning to give me a scare, too. I ain't playin' the clam, and
I dunno where he is; but I can tell you there's nothing to worry
you any more about the rest of it. He was after the White Moll last
night, and it didn't come off. They pulled one on him instead, and
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