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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: about some of it, for he told me you were dead."
"He is a born liar," the girl commented. "Well, to get on with my
story. Anderson, or Hardman, as he now calls himself, except when
he uses his stage name of Cavallado, went into the show business
and took me with him. When I was a little bit of a girl he used
to use me for all sorts of things, such as a target for his knife
throwing and to sell medicine to the audience. Lots of people
would buy because I was such a morsel of a creature, and I
suppose he found me a drawing card. We moved all over the country
for years. I hated the life. But what could I do?"
"You poor little lamb," murmured the man. "And when did you find
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