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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: I got up--it seemed to me my mind was made up for me--and walked into the
light of the room.
"Buell, I can show you the way," I said, quietly.
"What!" His mouth opened in astonishment. "Speak up, then."
The other men stepped forward, and I felt their eyes upon me.
"Let me go free. Let me out of here to find Dick Leslie! Then when you go
to jail in Holston for stealing lumber I'll say a good word for you and
your men. There won't be any charge of kidnapping or violence."
After a long pause, during which Buell bored me with gimlet eyes, he said,
in a queer voice: "Say thet again."
I repeated it, and added that he could not gain anything now by holding me
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