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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: that could say so many things in a minute, but the gallant ease
of his bearing. Such a springy lightness, such sinewy grace of
undulating muscle, were rare even on the frontier. She had once
heard Webb Mackenzie say of him that he could whip his weight in
wildcats, and it was easy of belief after seeing how surely he
was master of the dynamic power in him. It is the emergency that
sifts men, and she had seen him rise to several with a readiness
that showed the stuff in him.
That evening they slipped out unobserved in the dusk, and a few
minutes later a young gipsy and his bride presented themselves at
the inn to be put up. The scowling young Romany was particular,
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