| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: nearest--when he turned away sickened. He remembered it all now. The advance,
the rush, the fight--all returned. He saw again Wetzel's shadowy form darting
like a demon into the whirl of conflict; he heard again that hoarse, booming
roar with which the Avenger accompanied his blows. Joe's gaze swept the glade,
but found no trace of the hunter.
He saw Silvertip and another Indian bathing a wound on Girty's head. The
renegade groaned and writhed in pain. Near him lay Kate, with white face and
closed eyes. She was unconscious, or dead. Jim sat crouched under a tree to
which he was tied.
"Joe, are you badly hurt?" asked the latter, in deep solicitude.
"No, I guess not; I don't know," answered Joe. "Is poor Kate dead?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: was not diligently alert to find them. To-day it is quite otherwise. The
facts and figures have been compiled, arranged, published in accessible
and convenient form; therefore to-day, the man or woman who persists in
asking what England did in the war is not honest but dishonest or
mentally spotted, and does not want to be answered. They don't want to
know. The question is merely a camouflage of their spite, and were every
item given of the gigantic and magnificent contribution that England made
to the defeat of the Kaiser and all his works, it would not stop their
evil mouths. Not for them am I here setting forth a part of what England
did; it is for the convenience of the honest American, who does want to
know, that my collection of facts is made from the various sources which
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: mother, the Sparrow had sworn that he would stick to the "straight
and narrow." And Hayden-Bond, the millionaire, referred to by a
good many people as eccentric, had further proved his claims to
eccentricity in the eyes of a good many people by giving a prison
bird a chance to make an honest living, and had engaged the Sparrow
as his chauffeur. It was a vile and an abominable thing that they
were doing, even if they had not planned to culminate it with murder.
What chance would the Sparrow have had!
It had taken a long time. She did not know how long, as, at last,
she stole unnoticed into a black and narrow driveway that led in,
between two blocks of down-at-the-heels tenements, to a courtyard
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