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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: at the weapon in my hand as I entered his door, and then he seemed to
fade from my sight. I ran to the back door, kicked it open, and saw
him running like a deer up the road toward the wood that began two
hundred yards away. I was after him, with a shout. I remember
hearing children and women screaming, and seeing them flying from the
road.
He was fleet, but I was stronger. A mile, and I had almost come up
with him. He doubled cunningly and dashed into a brake that extended
into a small canon. I crashed through this after him, and in five
minutes had him cornered in an angle of insurmountable cliffs. There
his instinct of self-preservation steadied him, as it will steady even
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