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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: tarry here awhile. We don't see many lasses, especially any as pretty as you,
and you'll find it more quiet and lonesome the farther West you get. Jake
knows all about Fort Henry, and Jeff Lynn, the hunter outside, he knows Eb and
Jack Zane, and Wetzel, and all those Fort Henry men. You'll be gettin' married
out there, won't you?"
"You are--quite wrong," said Nell, who all the while Mrs. Wentz was speaking
grew rosier and rosier. "We're not anything---"
Then Nell hesitated and finally ceased speaking. She saw that denials or
explanations were futile; the simple woman had seen the kiss, and formed her
own conclusions. During the few days Nell had spent at Fort Pitt, she had come
to understand that the dwellers on the frontier took everything as a matter of
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