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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: shout a command to the warriors who had passed from our
sight behind the ridge. He did not wait for them to join
him, however, instead he wheeled his thoat and came tearing
madly in our direction.
There was but one slight chance and that we must take
quickly. Raising my strange Martian rifle to my shoulder I
sighted and touched the button which controlled the trigger;
there was a sharp explosion as the missile reached its goal, and
the charging chieftain pitched backward from his flying
mount.
Springing to my feet I urged the thoat to rise, and directed
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