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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: bankrupt, and my goods, my lands, my jewels that I so much
loved, my slaves whom I have spoiled and rendered happy, and
oh! tenfold worse, you, my beloved daughter, would be sold
and pass into the hands of ignorant and greedy traffickers.
Too long, I saw, had I accepted and profited by this great
crime of slavery; but was my daughter, my innocent unsullied
daughter, was SHE to pay the price? I cried out - no! - I
took Heaven to witness my temptation; I caught up this bag
and fled. Close upon my track are the pursuers; perhaps to-
night, perhaps to-morrow, they will land upon this isle,
sacred to the memory of the dear soul that bore you, to
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