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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: shook, and his legs gave beneath his weight so that he had
to lean against the back of a chair to keep from falling.
Once more he turned to the soldiers. This time he pleaded
with them, begging them to carry word to Prince Peter that
a terrible mistake had been made, and that it was the king
and not the American who was confined in the death cham-
ber. But the soldiers only laughed at him, and finally threat-
ened to come in and beat him if he again interrupted their
conversation.
It was a white and shaken prisoner that the officer of the
guard found when he entered the room at dawn. The man
The Mad King | 
