The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Bududreen could scarce repress a smile--it was indeed
too splendid to be true.
"It will be perilous work, Captain," he answered.
"We should all be hanged were we caught."
"There will be no danger of that, Bududreen,
for there will be no one to divulge our secret."
"There will be the Professor Maxon," urged the Malay.
"Some day he will escape from the island, and then we
shall all hang."
"He will never escape," replied von Horn, "his own
creatures will see to that. They are already
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