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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: trails, and Jim sided with him.
Once, while they were talking, I happened to catch Herky-Jerky's eye. He
was lying on his back in the light from the door. Herky winked at me,
screwed up his face in the most astonishing manner, all of which I
presently made out to mean that he wanted to speak to me. So I went over to
him.
"Kid, you ain't a-goin' to fergit I stalled off Buell?" whispered Herky.
"He'd hev done fer you, an' thet's no lie. You won't fergit when we're
rustled down to Holston?"
"I'll remember, Herky," I promised, and I meant to put in a good word for
him. Because, whether or not his reasons had to do with kidnapping and
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