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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: "How long was Miss West here?"
"Two weeks."
I hesitated about further questioning. Critical as my position was,
I could not pry deeper into Alison West's affairs. If she had got
into the hands of adventurers, as Sullivan and his sister appeared
to have been, she was safely away from them again. But something of
the situation in the car Ontario was forming itself in my mind: the
incident at the farmhouse lacked only motive to be complete. Was
Sullivan, after all, a rascal or a criminal? Was the murderer
Sullivan or Mrs. Conway? The lady or the tiger again.
Jennie was speaking.
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