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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: one way to handle such as you. At present I hold the power
to coerce you, and I shall continue to hold that power until
I am safely out of your two-by-four kingdom. If you do as
I say you shall have your throne back again. If you refuse,
why by Heaven you shall never have it. I'll stay king of
Lutha myself."
"What are your terms?" asked the king.
"That Prince Peter of Blentz, Captain Ernst Maenck, and
old Von Coblich be tried, convicted, and hanged for high
treason," replied the American.
"That is easy," said the king. "I should do so anyway
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