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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: would Meriem be any better off? She was in the power of equally
villainous men--brutal savages of the lowest order. Baynes buried
his face in his hands and rocked back and forth as the hideous
picture of her fate burned itself into his consciousness. And it
was he who had brought this fate upon her! His wicked desire
had snatched a pure and innocent girl from the protection of
those who loved her to hurl her into the clutches of the bestial
Swede and his outcast following! And not until it had become
too late had he realized the magnitude of the crime he himself
had planned and contemplated. Not until it had become too late
had he realized that greater than his desire, greater than his lust,
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