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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: into the unknown depths below?
Chapter 25
Through the Forest Primeval
For a brief, sickening moment Tarzan felt the slipping of
the rope to which he clung, and heard the scraping of
the block of stone against the masonry above.
Then of a sudden the rope was still--the stone had caught at
the very edge. Gingerly the ape-man clambered up the frail rope.
In a moment his head was above the edge of the shaft.
The court was empty. The inhabitants of Opar were viewing
the sacrifice. Tarzan could hear the voice of La from the
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