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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: brought, and only heard the womenfolk this morning whispering
that Oda Yorimoto had brought home a new woman the
night before."
"Could you not see her with your own eyes?" asked Theriere.
"My eyes cannot pass through the door of the little room
behind, in which they still were when I left to gather firewood
a half hour since," retorted the youth.
"Wot's de Chink sayin'?" asked Billy Byrne, impatient of
the conversation, no word of which was intelligible to him.
"He says, in substance," replied Theriere, with a grin, "that
Miss Harding is still alive, and in the back room of that
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