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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: and completely exhausted.
But an hour in the cavern, with its supply of air, revived us;
and then we sat up and asked ourselves: "What for?"
"And all that brings us--to this," said Harry, with a sweeping
gesture round the cavern.
"At least, it is a better tomb," I retorted. "And it was a
good fight. We still have something in us. Desiree, a good man
was lost in you."
Harry rose to his feet.
"I'm going to look round," he announced. "We've got to do
something. Gad, and it took us a month to build that raft!"
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