You are given an English sentence with a blank, and you need to predict the missing word. After completing, the whole sentence should be gramatically correct and non-ambiguous.

he thought he was too early so he tied his horse in the yard of the small bright river hotel and went over to the station house the long platform was almost deserted the only living creature in sight being a girl who was sitting on a pile of shingles at the ____ end
extreme

he had only to turn his eyes on one side and allow andrea to fly and follow ____ the crime under that shadow of guilt called contempt of court and after this reasoning she slept easily
up

and a full soft ____ beard which he had worn ever since he was twenty in fact he had looked at twenty very much as he looked at sixty lacking a little of the grayness when he reached bright river there was no sign of any train

brown