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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: if he expected to see some one come riding up. He alone of the
cowboys did not indulge in the fun and talk around the camp-fire.
He remained preoccupied and sad, and was always looking away into
distance. Madeline had a strange sense of his guardianship over
her; and, remembering Don Carlos, she imagined he worried a good
deal over his charge, and, indeed, over the safety of all the
party.
But if he did worry about possible visits from wandering
guerrillas, why did he absent himself from camp? Suddenly into
Madeline's inquisitive mind flashed a remembrance of the
dark-eyed Mexican girl, Bonita, who had never been heard of since
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