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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: this noble girl--of your future."
The rangers took Duane home to Wellston.
A railroad had been built since Duane had gone into exile.
Wellston had grown. A noisy crowd surrounded the station, but
it stilled as Duane was carried from the train.
A sea of faces pressed close. Some were faces he
remembered--schoolmates, friends, old neighbors. There was an
upflinging of many hands. Duane was being welcomed home to the
town from which he had fled. A deadness within him broke. This
welcome hurt him somehow, quickened him; and through his cold
being, his weary mind, passed a change. His sight dimmed.
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