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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: perspiration to collect on his brow.
Joe related the circumstances of that night, and at the end of his narrative
Colonel Zane sat silent and thoughtful.
"You don't really think it was Wetzel who moaned?" he asked, at length.
"No, I don't," replied Joe quickly; "but, Colonel Zane, I heard that moan as
plainly as I can hear your voice. I heard it twice. Now, what was it?"
"Jonathan said the same thing to me once. He had been out hunting with Wetzel;
they separated, and during the night Jonathan heard the wind. The next day he
ran across a dead Indian. He believes Wetzel makes the noise, and so do the
hunters; but I think it is simply the moan of the night wind through the
trees. I have heard it at times, when my very blood seemingly ran cold."
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