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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: morning of the wreck. She was buying her Pullman ticket when I did.
Then the next morning, when the murder was discovered, she grew
hysterical, and I gave her some whisky. The third and last time I
saw her, until to-night, was when she crouched beside the road,
after the wreck."
McKnight slid down in his chair until his weight rested on the small
of his back, and put his feet on the big reading table.
"It is rather a facer," he said. "It's really too good a situation
for a commonplace lawyer. It ought to be dramatized. You can't
agree, of course; and by refusing you run the chance of jail, at
least, and of having Alison brought into publicity, which is out of
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