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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: "Your brother spoke the truth, an' I thank you fer the rifle."
Chapter VIII.
"So you want to know all about Wetzel?" inquired Colonel Zane of Joe, when,
having left Jim and Mr. Wells, they returned to the cabin.
"I am immensely interested in him," replied Joe.
"Well, I don't think there's anything singular in that. I know Wetzel better,
perhaps, than any man living; but have seldom talked about him. He doesn't
like it. He is by birth a Virginian; I should say, forty years old. We were
boys together, and and I am a little beyond that age. He was like any of the
lads, except that he excelled us all in strength and agility. When he was
nearly eighteen years old a band if Indians--Delawares, I think--crossed the
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