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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: understood that Loge, out of the depths of his perplexity, had
said that he (Cleggett) was mentally erratic.
"Ah, you think so, do you?" said Cleggett aloud, laying down his
glass and seizing a rifle. "Well, just to let you know that I
have a certain opinion of you, also, my friend Loge----" And he
sent a bullet over the heads of the three men. They hastily
ducked into the house. Cleggett might have picked Loge off, but
he disdained to do so. It was his purpose to take the man alive,
if possible.
But the rifle shot did not end the espionage. All day scouting
parties in taxicabs kept appearing on the sandy plain to
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