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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: He'll hunt for new tracks in the dust, and they'll as likely
send him down the river as up.
"Just then I see a man coming down on a mule, and before I
thought I jumped into the bush. It was stupid! When he got
abreast he stopped and waited a little for me to come out;
then he rode on again. But I didn't feel gay any more.
I says to myself I've botched my chances by that;
I surely have, if he meets up with Hal Clayton.
"Well, about three in the morning I fetched Elexandria
and see this stern-wheeler laying there, and was very glad,
because I felt perfectly safe, now, you know. It was
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