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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: presently ceasing altogether. Nor was this less ominous
than the rattle of musketry, for it suggested but a single
solution to the little band of rescuers--that the illy
garrisoned village had already succumbed to the onslaught
of a superior force.
The returning hunters had covered a little more than
three miles of the five that had separated them from the
village when they met the first of the fugitives who had
escaped the bullets and clutches of the foe. There were a
dozen women, youths, and girls in the party, and so excited
were they that they could scarce make themselves understood
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