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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "There are miles of corridors honeycombing the ground beneath
the gardens and the temple itself, and there is one passage
that leads down to and connects with the lower regions that
open on the water shaft that gives passage to Omean.
"If we can reach the submarine undetected we may yet
make the sea in which there are many islands where the
blacks never go. There we may live for a time, and who
knows what may transpire to aid us to escape?"
He had spoken all in a low whisper, evidently fearing spying
ears even here, and so I answered him in the samesubdued tone.
"Lead back to Shador, my friend," I whispered. "Xodar, the
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