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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: yet now, with the evidence of her deed plain before them,
they had vanished as mysteriously as they had come,
leaving her alone with the body of their ruler,
into whose side she had slipped her long, keen blade.
The girl glanced apprehensively about, first for signs of
the return of the bowmen, and then for some means of escape.
The wall behind the dais was pierced by two small
doorways, hidden by heavy hangings. Thuvia was running
quickly towards one of these when she heard the clank of
a warrior's metal at the end of the apartment behind her.
Ah, if she had but an instant more of time she could
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