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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: porch where the cowboys stood silent and bareheaded. Then one of
her subtle impulses checked her.
"Nels, you and Nick need not go on duty to-day," she said. "I
may want you. I--I--"
She hesitated, paused, and stood lingering there. Her glance had
fallen upon Stewart's big black horse prancing in a near-by
corral.
"I have sent Stillwell to El Paso," she went on, in a low voice
she failed to hold steady. "He will save Stewart. I have to
tell you--I am Stewart's wife!"
She felt the stricken amaze that made these men silent and
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