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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: by concocting a story immediately to explain his presence
and his knowledge.
"I lived upon the island near your father's camp,"
he said. "I knew you all--by sight."
"How long have you lived there?" asked the girl.
"We thought the island uninhabited."
"All my life," replied Bulan truthfully.
"It is strange," she mused. "I cannot understand it.
But the monsters--how is it that they followed you and
obeyed your commands?"
Bulan touched the bull whip that hung at his side.
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