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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: was fast taking our strength.
Looking up, I saw that we had swung round to the other side of
the column--it was between us and the alcove. Then I understood.
We were in a whirlpool, ever increasing in force, which was
carrying us swiftly in a circle from left to right and approaching
the column.
I called a swift warning to Harry, who was some ten feet to my
left, and he answered that he understood. The stones from the bank
were falling thick about us now; one struck me on the shoulder,
turning me half round.
The current became swifter--so swift that we were almost
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