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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: for the interior, and then we turned to continue our interrupted
battle; but our foes had vanished.
My first thought was of Dejah Thoris. Calling to Carthoris
that I had found his mother, I started on a run toward the
chamber where I had left her, with my boy close beside me.
After us came those of our little force who had survived
the bloody conflict.
The moment I entered the room I saw that some one
had been there since I had left. A silk lay upon the floor.
It had not been there before. There were also a dagger and
several metal ornaments strewn about as though torn from
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