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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: collars with the laundry mark, S. H. In the leather tag on the
handle was a card with the name Simon Harrington, Pittsburg. The
conductor sat down on my unmade berth, across, and made an entry of
the name and address. Then, on an old envelope, he wrote a few
words and gave it to the porter, who disappeared.
"I guess that's all I can do," he said. "I've had enough trouble
this trip to last for a year. They don't need a conductor on these
trains any more; what they ought to have is a sheriff and a posse."
The porter from the next car came in and whispered to him. The
conductor rose unhappily.
"Next car's caught the disease," he grumbled. "Doctor, a woman back
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