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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: Gregory and had evidently enclosed a one-hundred dollar bill. It
began without superscription: "Enclosed find a hundred dollars,
as I imagine funds may be short. If I were you I'd get out of here.
There has been considerable excitement, and you know too many people
in this burg."
Bassett sat back in his chair and studied the note.
"Now why the devil did he do that?" he reflected. He sat for some
time, thinking deeply, and he came to one important conclusion.
The story Gregory had told was the one which was absolutely
calculated to shut off all further inquiry. They had had ten years;
ten years to plan, eliminate and construct; ten years to prepare
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