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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: looking on. What was the stormy outcome of it all is now
presently to be told.
CHAPTER 12
Thus it was that Myles, with an eye to open war with the
bachelors, gathered a following to his support. It was some
little while before matters were brought to a crisis--a week or
ten days. Perhaps even Myles had no great desire to hasten
matters. He knew that whenever war was declared, he himself would
have to bear the brunt of the battle, and even the bravest man
hesitates before deliberately thrusting himself into a fight.
One morning Myles and Gascoyne and Wilkes sat under the shade of
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