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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: attention. He had often been shocked at the callousness with
which so many of the heroes of romance dash blithely into the
next adventure--though those whom they have seriously injured
lie on all sides of them as thick as autumn leaves--with only the
most perfunctory consideration of these victims; sometimes,
indeed, with no thought of them at all.
"Something tells me," said Cleggett seriously, "that this
intrusion of armed men is only a prelude. I have little doubt of
the hostility of Morris's; I am sure that the men who hid in the
hold are spies from Morris's. I do not yet know the motive for
this hostility. But the Jasper B. is in the midst of dangers and
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