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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: border on a marauding expedition far into Virginia. They burned the old Wetzel
homestead and murdered the father, mother, two sisters, and a baby brother.
The terrible shock nearly killed Lewis, who for a time was very ill. When he
recovered he went in search of his brothers, Martin and John Wetzel, who were
hunting, and brought them back to their desolated home. Over the ashes of the
home and the graves of the loved ones the brothers swore sleepless and eternal
vengeance. The elder brothers have been devoted all these twenty years and
more to the killing of Indians; but Lewis has been the great foe of the
redman. You have already seen an example of his deeds, and will hear of more.
His name is a household word on the border. Scores of times he has saved,
actually saved, this fort and settlement. His knowledge of savage ways
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