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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: effect on Tengga and his friends and cause a great excitement in
the Settlement; but for that Jorgenson did not care. The
Settlement was already in such a turmoil that a little more
excitement did not matter. What Jorgenson did not expect,
however, was the sound of a musket-shot fired from the jungle
facing the bows of the Emma. It caused him to stop dead short. He
had heard distinctly the bullet strike the curve of the bow
forward. "Some hot-headed ass fired that," he said to himself,
contemptuously. It simply disclosed to him the fact that he was
already besieged on the shore side and set at rest his doubts as
to the length Tengga was prepared to go. Any length! Of course
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