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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: before his own sword the initials NT.
As his following and wealth increased he rebuilt and
enlarged the grim Castle of Torn, and again dammed
the little stream which had furnished the moat with
water in bygone days.
Through all the length and breadth of the country
that witnessed his activities his very name was wor-
shipped by poor and lowly and oppressed. The money
he took from the King's tax gatherers he returned to
the miserable peasants of the district, and once when
Henry III sent a little expedition against him he sur-
The Outlaw of Torn | 
