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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: himself."
McWilliams had climbed lazily to the top board of the fence. He
was an energetic youth, but he liked to do his thinking at his
ease. Now, as his gaze still followed its lodestar, he suddenly
slipped from his seat and ran forward, pulling the revolver from
its scabbard as he ran. Into his eyes had crept a tense
alertness, the shining watchfulness of the tiger ready for its
spring.
The cause of the change in the foreman of the Lazy D was a simple
one, and on its face innocent enough. It was merely that a
stranger had swung in casually at the gate of the short stable
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