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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of the distance."
"But we are not unarmed," replied the man. "I have an
extra pistol here, that the beggars didn't discover," and, re-
moving the cover of a compartment, he drew forth an auto-
matic.
Bertha Kircher leaned back in her seat and laughed aloud,
a mirthless, half-hysterical laugh. "That popgun!" she ex-
claimed. "What earthly good would it do other than to in-
furiate any beast of prey you might happen to hit with it?"
Smith-Oldwick looked rather crestfallen. "But it is a weap-
on," he said. "You will have to admit that, and certainly I
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