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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: burn your fingers. All Mojada will tell you that Louis Devoe is the
man.
"We will see about that," said I. "And, perhaps, whether he is a man
as well as the man."
I lost no time in meeting Louis Devoe. That was easily accomplished,
for the foreign colony in Mojada numbered scarce a dozen; and they
gathered daily at a half-decent hotel kept by a Turk, where they
managed to patch together the fluttering rags of country and
civilization that were left them. I sought Devoe before I did my
pearl of the doorway, because I had learned a little of the game of
war, and knew better than to strike for a prize before testing the
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