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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: up pretty fair. How about you? Dick, is he bad hurt?"
"No, he's not. A hard knock on the skull and a scalp wound, "
replied Dick. "Here, Jim, let me help you over this place."
Step by step Gale got the two injured men down the uneven declivity
and then across the narrow lava bridge over the fissure. Here he
bade them rest while he went along the trail on that side to search
for Laddy. Gale found the ranger stretched out, face downward,
a reddened hand clutching a gun. Gale thought he was dead. Upon
examination, however, it was found that Ladd still lived, though he
had many wounds. Gale lifted him and carried him back to the
others.
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