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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: His course was chosen. With all possible speed, which meant with him walking
only when he could not run, he traveled northwest. If Miller had taken the
direction Wetzel suspected, the trails of the two men would cross about ten
miles from the Ohio. But the hunter had not traversed more than a mile of the
forest when the dog put his nose high in the air and growled. Wetzel slowed
down into a walk and moved cautiously onward, peering through the green aisles
of the woods. A few rods farther on Tige uttered another growl and put his
nose to the ground. He found a trail. On examination Wetzel discovered in the
moss two moccasin tracks. Two Indians had passed that point that morning. They
were going northwest directly toward the camp of Wingenund. Wetzel stuck close
to the trail all that day and an hour before dusk he heard the sharp crack of
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