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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: must be the secret of his agitation.
Presently he pushed open the closet door and stepped forth.
Miss Longstreth had her head lowered upon her arms and appeared
to be in distress. At his touch she raised a quivering face.
"I think I can go now--safely," he whispered.
"Go then, if you must, but you may stay till you're safe," she
replied.
"I--I couldn't thank you enough. It's been hard on me--this
finding out--and you his daughter. I feel strange. I don't
understand myself well. But I want you to know--if I were not
an outlaw--a ranger--I'd lay my life at your feet."
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