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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: fierce-looking as a gorilla and as repulsive. Besides him there
were three other men present, all mounted on weary horses. The
one in the foreground, gaunt, sharp-featured, red-eyed, with a
pointed beard, she recognized as the sheriff of El Cajon.
Madeline hesitated, then stopped in the middle of the porch.
Alfred, Florence, and several others followed her out; the rest
of the cowboys and guests crowded the windows and doors.
Stillwell saw Madeline, and, throwing up his hands, roared to be
heard. This quieted the gesticulating, quarreling men.
"Wal now, Pat Hawe, what's drivin' you like a locoed steer on the
rampage?" demanded Stillwell.
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