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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: on a small cruiser to the distant Isle of Shador.
Here we found a small stone prison and a guard of half a
dozen blacks. There was no ceremony wasted in completing our
incarceration. One of the blacks opened the door of the prison
with a huge key, we walked in, the door closed behind us,
the lock grated, and with the sound there swept over me
again that terrible feeling of hopelessness that I had felt in
the Chamber of Mystery in the Golden Cliffs beneath the
gardens of the Holy Therns.
Then Tars Tarkas had been with me, but now I was utterly
alone in so far as friendly companionship was concerned. I
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