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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: knew, that this show of Fletcher's, this pretense of
introduction, was merely talk while he was looked over.
Knell stepped up, and it was easy to see, from the way Fletcher
relinquished his part in the situation, that a man greater than
he had appeared upon the scene.
"Any business here?" he queried, curtly. When he spoke his
expressionless face was in strange contrast with the ring, the
quality, the cruelty of his voice. This voice betrayed an
absence of humor, of friendliness, of heart.
"Nope," replied the stranger.
"Know anybody hereabouts?"
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