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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: In his hand was a drawn sword. Silently and swiftly he
crossed to the side of the sleeping man. The eye at the crack
beside the gilded frame pressed closer to the aperture. The
sword was raised above the body of the slumberer--its point
hovered above his heart. The face of the man who wielded
it was hard with firm resolve.
His muscles tensed to drive home the blade, but some-
thing held his hand. His face paled. His shoulders con-
tracted with a little shudder, and he turned toward the
door of the apartment, almost running across the floor in his
anxiety to escape. The eye in the dark maintained its un-
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