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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: and slammed the gate shut, disappearing behind it. Muller heard
the lock click and heard the beat of running feet hastening rapidly
over the gravel path through the garden.
The detective stood immediately in front of the gate, shaking his
head. "What was the matter with the woman? What was it that she
wanted to see or do in the street? Why should she run away when
she saw me?" These were his thoughts. But he didn't waste time
in merely thinking. Muller never did. Action followed thought
with him very quickly. He saw a knot-hole in the fence just
beside the gate and he applied his eyes to this knot-hole. And
through the knot-hole he saw something that interested and
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