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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: landlord decided that he would touch upon the theme which was still
absorbing all Hietzing.
"Oh, by the way, sir, do you know that you are in the immediate
vicinity of the place where the murder of Monday evening was
committed? People are still talking about it around here. And I
see by the papers that the murderer was arrested in Pressburg
yesterday and brought to Vienna last night."
"Indeed, is that so? I haven't seen a paper to-day," replied
Muller, awakening from his apparent indifference.
The landlord was flattered by the success of the new subject, and
stood ready to unloose the floodgates of his eloquence. His customer
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