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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: was set before him, urged on by curiosity and astonishment. The
only way he could account for his presence there in a ranger's
camp was that MacNelly hoped to get useful information out of
him. Still that would hardly have made this captain so eager.
There was a mystery here, and Duane could scarcely wait for it
to be solved. While eating he had bent keen eyes around him.
After a first quiet scrutiny the rangers apparently paid no
more attention to him. They were all veterans in service--Duane
saw that--and rugged, powerful men of iron constitution.
Despite the occasional joke and sally of the more youthful
members, and a general conversation of camp-fire nature, Duane
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