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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: their entrance rang out a most disconcerting fusillade of small
arms in the darkness without. Megales' military band, as
O'Halloran had facetiously dubbed them to the ranger, arrived at
the impression that there were about a thousand insurgents
encompassing the train. Chaves choked with rage, but the rest of
the command yielded to the situation very tranquilly, with no
desire to offer themselves as targets to this crackling explosion
of Colts. Muy bien! After all, Valdez was a better man to serve
than the fox Megales.
Swiftly Valdez and the wagon driver passed down the car and
gathered the weapons from the seats of the troopers. Raising a
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