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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: about this portal in vain attempts to solve its mystery."
I had no time to talk, I was becoming very weak and it
was with difficulty that I controlled my mind at all.
But, with a final effort, as I sank weakly to my knees I
hurled the nine thought waves at that awful thing before me.
The Martian had crawled to my side and with staring eyes
fixed on the single panel before us we waited in the silence
of death.
Slowly the mighty door receded before us. I attempted to
rise and follow it but I was too weak.
"After it," I cried to my companion, "and if you reach the
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