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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: down the floor of his silken tent; but his temper
served him naught--Werper was gone and with him the
fortune in scintillating gems which had aroused the
cupidity of his chief and placed the sentence of death
upon the head of the lieutenant.
With the escape of the Arabs the great apes had turned
their attention to their fallen comrades. One was
dead, but another and the great white ape still
breathed. The hairy monsters gathered about these two,
grumbling and muttering after the fashion of their kind.
Tarzan was the first to regain consciousness. Sitting
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