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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: "What did I tell yez?" Reilly turned savagely to the other
disaffected members of the gang. "Didn't I tell yez he was
selling us out?"
Somehow Leroy's revolver seemed to jump to his hand without a
motion on his part. It lay loosely in his limp fingers, unaimed
and undirected.
"SAY THAT AGAIN, PLEASE."
Beneath the velvet of Leroy's voice ran a note more deadly than
any threat could have been. It rang a bell for a silence in which
the clock of death seemed to tick. But as the seconds fled
Reilly's courage oozed away. He dared not accept the invitation
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