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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: welcome it if it came while they defended their High
Priestess and her altar; but evidently there were
deaths, and deaths. Some strange superstition must
surround that polished blade, that no Oparian cared to
chance a death thrust from it, yet gladly rushed to the
slaughter of the ape-man's flaying spear.
Once outside the temple court, Werper communicated his
discovery to Tarzan. The ape-man grinned, and let
Werper go before him, brandishing the jeweled and holy
weapon. Like leaves before a gale, the Oparians
scattered in all directions and Tarzan and the Belgian
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