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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: several occasions from detachments of troops moving toward
the north. Once within the city he rode rapidly to the house
of a friend. Here he learned that which set him into a fine
state of excitement and profanity. The king and the Princess
Emma von der Tann were to be wed that very afternoon!
It lacked but half an hour to four o'clock.
Maenck grabbed his cap and dashed from the house be-
fore his astonished friend could ask a single question. He
hurried straight toward the cathedral. The king had just
arrived, and entered when Maenck came up, breathless. The
guard at the doorway did not recognize him. If they had
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