The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: American with an ugly grin upon his vicious face. Then his
eyes fell upon the trembling Rudolph.
"Get out of here, you!" he growled. "I've got private
business with this king. And see that you don't come nosing
round either, or I'll slit that soft throat for you."
Rudolph slipped past the burly ruffian, barely dodging a
brutal blow aimed at him by the giant, and escaped into
the darkness without.
"And now for you, my fine fellow," said the brigand,
turning toward Barney. "Peter says you ain't worth nothing
to him--alive, but that your dead body will fetch us a
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