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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: saw, was the stern reality arrayed against his dreams.
"That devil Radford Chase--he'll tell my secret," panted Nell.
"He swore if you ever came back and married me he'd follow us all
over the world to tell it."
Belding saw Gale grow deathly white and suddenly stand stock-still.
"Chase threatened you, then?" asked Dick; and the forced naturalness
of his voice struck Belding.
"Threatened me? He made my life a nightmare," replied Nell, in a
rush of speech. "At first I wondered how he was worrying mother
sick. But she wouldn't tell me. Then when she went away he began
to hint things. I hated him all the more. But when he told me--I
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