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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: to say to you--"
And he paused agin, pointing one long white
finger at the crowd--
"IF YOU LYNCH THIS MAN YOU MUST KILL ME FIRST!"
I couldn't get away from thinking, as he stood
there making them take that in, that they was some-
thing like a play-actor about him. But he was in
earnest, and he would play it to the end, fur he
liked the feelings it made circulate through his
frame. And they saw he was in earnest.
"You'll lynch him, will you?" he says, a kind of
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