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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: They must contrive to hold their own in that deadly rush until a
way could be found of escaping from the path of the living
cyclone that trod at their heels, galloped beside them, in front,
behind.
For it came to her that the horse was tiring in that rush through
the sand with double weight upon its back.
"Courage!" cried the man behind her as her fearful eyes met his.
As he spoke they reached the end of the canyon and firm ground
simultaneously. Helen saw that her rescuer had now a revolver in
his hand, and that he was firing in such a way as to deflect the
leaders to the left. At first the change in course was hardly
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