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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: "You shall soon see Issus," said Xodar to Phaidor. "The
few prisoners we take are presented to her. Occasionally she
selects slaves from among them to replenish the ranks of her
handmaidens. None serves Issus above a single year," and
there was a grim smile on the black's lips that lent a cruel
and sinister meaning to his simple statement.
Phaidor, though loath to believe that Issus was allied to
such as these, had commenced to entertain doubts and
fears. She clung very closely to me, no longer the proud
daughter of the Master of Life and Death upon Barsoom, but a
young and frightened girl in the power of relentless enemies.
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