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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: two years he had been living in the hope of some day being
able to deliver to the young monarch he so cordially de-
spised.
It was an ultimatum from his government--an ultimatum
couched in terms from which all diplomatic suavity had
been stripped. If Barney Custer, of Beatrice, could have
read it he would have smiled, for in plain American it might
have been described as announcing to Leopold precisely
"where he got off." But Barney did not have the opportunity
to read it, since that ultimatum was never delivered.
Barney took the wind all out of it by his first words. "Your
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