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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: Duane's part he wondered that Longstreth had not come to such a
conclusion before. Not improbably the advent of his daughter
had put Longstreth in conflict with himself.
Suddenly he threw off a somber cast of countenance, and he
began to talk. He talked swiftly, persuasively, yet Duane
imagined he was talking to smooth Lawson's passion for the
moment. Lawson no more caught the fateful significance of a
line crossed, a limit reached, a decree decided than if he had
not been present. He was obsessed with himself. How, Duane
wondered, had a man of his mind ever lived so long and gone so
far among the exacting conditions of the Southwest? The answer
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