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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: hard-bitten virtues of unflinching courage and implacable
purpose.
"I reckon you're near enough," suggested Mac, when the man had
approached to within a hundred feet of the tree clump.
"Y'u're drawing the dead-line," the other acknowledged,
indolently. "It won't take ten words to tell y'u what I want and
mean to have. I'm giving y'u two minutes to hand me over the body
of Ned Bannister. If y'u don't see it that way I'll come and make
a lead mine of your whole outfit."
"Y'u can't come too quick, seh. We're here a-shootin', and don't
y'u forget it," was McWilliams's prompt answer.
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