Today's Stichomancy for Theodore Roosevelt

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White:

Buck Johnson threw open the drawer, and drew from it the heavy canvas sack. "It's here. Now bring in your prisoner." The two-gun man seemed suddenly to loom large in the doorway. The muzzles of his revolvers covered the two before him. His speech came short and sharp. "I told you I'd bring back the cows and the one who rustled