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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: vanish, others will be spared. I say that it is my secret."
"Then, Oro, if you could do what you threaten, you would drown
hundreds of millions of people."
"If I could do! If I could do!" he exclaimed, glaring at
Bickley. "Well, tomorrow you shall see what I can do. Oh! why do
I grow angry with this fool? For the rest, yes, they must drown.
What does it matter? Their end will be swift; some few minutes of
terror, that is all, and in one short century every one of them
would have been dead."
An expression of horror gathered on Bastin's face.
"Do you really mean to murder hundreds of millions of people?"
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