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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: our own color, renegades like this Girty, as do worse'n murder."
Here was the amazing circumstance of Lewis Wetzel, the acknowledged unsatiable
foe of all redmen, speaking a good word for his enemies. Joe was so
astonished he did not attempt to answer.
"Here's where they got in the canoe. One more look, an' then we're off," said
Wetzel. He strode up and down the sandy beach; examined the willows, and
scrutinized the sand. Suddenly he bent over and picked up an object from the
water. His sharp eyes had caught the glint of something white, which, upon
being examined, proved to be a small ivory or bone buckle with a piece broken
out. He showed it to Joe.
"By heavens! Wetzel, that's a buckle off Nell Well's shoe. I've seen it too
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