| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: because I'm a soldier of a friendly power. We'll get Henderson
out the night before the election and leave on the late train.
You'll have to arrange the program in time for us to catch that
train. "
O'Halloran looked drolly at him. "I'm liking your nerve, young
man. I pull the chestnuts out of the fire for yez and, likely
enough, get burned. You walk off with your chestnut, and never a
'Thank ye' for poor Mickey the catspaw."
"It doesn't look like quite a square deal, does it?" laughed the
ranger. "Well, we might vary the program a bit. Bucky O'Connor,
Arizona ranger, can't stop and take a hand in such a game, but I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: belt and the farms. And for that matter Indiana, too, and all the
other forest States right out to the prairies. Where would we be
now, if we HADN'T done that?" he pointed across at the stump-covered
hills.
Mischief had driven out the gravity from the girl's eyes. She had
lowered her head slightly sidewise as though to conceal their
expression from him.
"I was beginning to be afraid you'd say 'yes-indeed,'" said she.
Orde looked bewildered, then remembered the Incubus, and laughed.
"I haven't been very conversational," he acknowledged.
"Certainly NOT!" she said severely. "That would have been very
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: She rode out into an open space where a loose earth-slide denied lodgement to
trees and grass. She halted the horse at the brink of the slide and glanced
down it with a measuring eye. Forty feet beneath, the slide terminated in a
small, firm-surfaced terrace, the banked accumulation of fallen earth and
gravel.
"It's a good test," she called across the canyon. "I'm going to put him down
it."
The animal gingerly launched himself on the treacherous footing, irregularly
losing and gaining his hind feet, keeping his fore legs stiff, and steadily
and calmly, without panic or nervousness, extricating the fore feet as fast as
they sank too deep into the sliding earth that surged along in a wave before
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