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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: Michael O'Halloran, importer of pianos.
Lieutenant Chaves, in charge of the detail sent out to see that
the rifles reached Governor Megales instead of the men who had
paid for them, was finding his assignment exceedingly
uninteresting. There was at Chihuahua a certain black-eyed dona
with whom he had expected to enjoy a pleasant evening's
flirtation. It was confounded luck that it had fallen to him to
take charge of the escort for the guns. He had endured in
consequence an unpleasant day of dusty travel and many hours of
boredom through the evening. Now he was cross and sleepy, which
latter might also be said of the soldiers in general.
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