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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: to help work out his plan for irrigation, I was certainly surprised
to see these strangers surveying--and surveying upon Laddy's plot of
land. It was a sandy road there, and Jose happened to be walking.
So I reined in and asked these engineers what they were doing.
The leader, who was that same bold fellow who had followed me,
seemed much pleased at being addressed. He was swaggering--too
friendly; not my idea of a gentleman at all. He said he was glad to
tell me he was going to run water all over Altar Valley. Dad, you
can bet that made me wild. That was Dick's plan, his discovery,
and here were surveyors on Laddy's claim.
"Then I told him that he was working on private land and he'd better
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