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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: single jerk I tore the priceless stuff from its fastenings, and
there before me was revealed a narrow doorway behind the throne.
No question entered my mind but that here lay the opening of
the avenue of escape which Thurid had followed, and had there been
it would have been dissipated by the sight of a tiny, jeweled
ornament which lay a few steps within the corridor beyond.
As I snatched up the bauble I saw that it bore the device of
the Princess of Helium, and then pressing it to my lips I dashed
madly along the winding way that led gently downward toward the
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