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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: office of the local paper (for the place has a paper - they
all have papers); and here certainly is one of the hotels,
Cheeseborough's, whence the daring Foss, a man dear to
legend, starts his horses for the Geysers.
It must be remembered that we are here in a land of stage-
drivers and highwaymen: a land, in that sense, like England
a hundred years ago. The highway robber - road-agent, he is
quaintly called - is still busy in these parts. The fame of
Vasquez is still young. Only a few years go, the Lakeport
stage was robbed a mile or two from Calistoga. In 1879, the
dentist of Mendocino City, fifty miles away upon the coast,
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