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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: the tedious hours of imprisonment, and the constant haunt-
ing fears for his life had reduced him to this pitiable condi-
tion.
Whatever the cause, Barney Custer was determined to
overcome the man's aversion to assuming the duties which
were rightly his, for in his memory were the words of Emma
von der Tann, in which she had made plain to him the fate
that would doubtless befall her father and his house were
Peter of Blentz to become king of Lutha. Then, too, there
was the life of the little peasant boy. Was that to be given
up uselessly for a king with so mean a spirit that he would
The Mad King |
