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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: twenty-fifth. He must ride back to Ord, to intercept Knell,
face him be denounced, kill him, and while the iron was hot
strike hard to win Poggin's half-won interest as he had wholly
won Fletcher's. Failing that last, he must let the outlaws
alone to bide their time in Ord, to be free to ride on to their
new job in Val Verde. In the mean time he must plan to arrest
Longstreth. It was a magnificent outline, incredible, alluring,
unfathomable in its nameless certainty. He felt like fate. He
seemed to be the iron consequences falling upon these doomed
outlaws.
Under the wall the shadows were black, only the tips of trees
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