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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: that the only person in the world who had the remotest chance of
reaching Belarab's gate on that night was that tall white woman
the Rajah Laut had brought on board, the wife of one of the
captive white chiefs. Surprise made Jaffir exclaim, but he wasn't
prepared to deny that. It was possible that for many reasons,
some quite simple and others very subtle, those sons of the Evil
One belonging to Tengga and Daman would refrain from killing a
white woman walking alone from the water's edge to Belarab's
gate. Yes, it was just possible that she might walk unharmed.
"Especially if she carried a blazing torch," muttered Jorgenson
in his moustache. He told Jaffir that she was sitting now in the
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