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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: He wanted men to see the famous Arabians; he wanted men to see
them dirty and dusty, bearing all the signs of having been driven
to their limit; he wanted men to see and to know that the thieves
who had ridden them out into the sage had not ridden them back.
Venters had come for that and for more--he wanted to meet Tull
face to face; if not Tull, then Dyer; if not Dyer, then anyone in
the secret of these master conspirators. Such was Venters's
passion. The meeting with the rustlers, the unprovoked attack
upon him, the spilling of blood, the recognition of Jerry Card
and the horses, the race, and that last plunge of mad
Wrangle--all these things, fuel on fuel to the smoldering fire,
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