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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: you suppose he thinks any one in this house is going to play
bridge to-night at nine o'clock, by appointment! I suppose you
have shown it in the kitchen, and instead of my being able to
slip down to the bridge to-night quietly, and see who is there,
the whole household will be going in a procession."
"Nobody knows it," Liddy said humbly. "I found it in the basket
in Miss Gertrude's dressing-room. Look at the back of the
sheet." I turned over some of the scraps, and, sure enough,
it was a blank deposit slip from the Traders' Bank. So Gertrude
was going to meet Jack Bailey that night by the bridge! And I
had thought he was ill! It hardly seemed like the action of an
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