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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: missionaries as the converted Indians, that the renegades are fuming over.
They know if the Christian savages are killed, the strength of the
missionaries' hold will be forever broken. Pipe is wild for blood. These
renegades are slowly poisoning the minds of the few chiefs who are favorably
disposed. The outlook is bad! bad!"
"What can I do?"
"Cut out for yourself. Get away, if you can, with a gun. Take the creek below,
follow the current down to the Ohio, and then make east for Fort Henry.
"But I want to rescue the white girl Jim Girty has concealed here somewhere."
"Impossible! Don't attempt it unless you want to throw your life away.
Buzzard Jim, as we call Girty, is a butcher; he has probably murdered the
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