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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to the arena, and none at all if the learned ones drag
me to the pits?"
"You are quite right," he replied; "but do not felicitate
yourself too quickly should you be sent to the arena,
for there is scarce one in a thousand who comes out alive."
To my surprise they returned me to the same building in which I
had been confined with Perry and Ghak before my escape.
At the doorway I was turned over to the guards there.
"He will doubtless be called before the investigators shortly,"
said he who had brought me back," so have him in readiness."
The guards in whose hands I now found myself, upon hearing
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