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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: Through an unshuttered window the lightning flashed. Suddenly the
cat looked up. It lifted its head and stared directly at the
gallery above. Then it blinked, and stared again. I was amused.
Not until it had got up on its feet, eyes still riveted on the
balcony, tail waving at the tip, the hair on its back a bristling
brush, did I glance casually over my head.
>From among the shadows a face gazed down at me, a face that seemed
a fitting tenant of the ghostly room below. I saw it as plainly as
I might see my own face in a mirror. While I stared at it with
horrified eyes, the apparition faded. The rail was there, the
Bokhara rug still swung from it, but the gallery was empty.
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