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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: against senseless metal which yields better to the lightest finger
touch of one who knows its secret."
"Know you the secret of it then?" I asked.
"Yes; release me and I will give you entrance to the other
horror chamber, if you wish. The keys to my fetters are upon
the first dead of thy foemen. But why would you return
to face again the fierce banth, or whatever other form of
destruction they have loosed within that awful trap?"
"Because my friend fights there alone," I answered, as I
hastily sought and found the keys upon the carcass of the
dead custodian of this grim chamber of horrors.
The Gods of Mars | 
