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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: it sticks in my head that it was blue."
"Blue or black, did ye know him?" said I.
"I couldnae just conscientiously swear to him," says Alan. "He
gaed very close by me, to be sure, but it's a strange thing that
I should just have been tying my brogues."
"Can you swear that you don't know him, Alan?" I cried, half
angered, half in a mind to laugh at his evasions.
"Not yet," says he; "but I've a grand memory for forgetting,
David."
"And yet there was one thing I saw clearly," said I; "and that
was, that you exposed yourself and me to draw the soldiers."
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