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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: at hand, and that before many days were sped, the ancient and
accumulated hate of one or of both of us would be buried for ever
in the silence of death. How ill had fate dealt with me, now as
always. But a few minutes before, when I set that arrow on the
string, I had wavered for a moment, doubting whether to loose it at
the young cavalier who lay dead, or at the knight who rode next to
him; and see! I had slain one with whom I had no quarrel and left
my enemy unharmed.
'Ho there!' cried de Garcia in Spanish. 'I desire to speak with
the leader of the rebel Otomie on behalf of the Captain Bernal
Diaz, who commands this army.'
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