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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: but found no trace of the hunter.
He saw Silvertip and another Indian bathing a wound on Girty's head. The
renegade groaned and writhed in pain. Near him lay Kate, with white face and
closed eyes. She was unconscious, or dead. Jim sat crouched under a tree to
which he was tied.
"Joe, are you badly hurt?" asked the latter, in deep solicitude.
"No, I guess not; I don't know," answered Joe. "Is poor Kate dead?"
"No, she has fainted."
"Where's Nell?"
"Gone," replied Jim, lowering his voice, and glancing at the Indians. They
were too busy trying to bandage Girty's head to pay any attention to their
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