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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: hatred of his cousin, always dormant in the heart, flamed into
active heat. The disowned youth swore to be revenged. A short
time later the general died, leaving what little property he had
entirely to the one grandson. This stirred again the bitter rage
of the other. He set fire to the house that had been willed his
cousin, and took a train that night for Wyoming. By a strange
irony of fate they met again in the West years later, and the
enmity between them was renewed, growing every month more bitter
on the part of the one who called himself the King of the Bighorn
Country.
She broke the silence after his story with a gentle "Thank you. I
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