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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: that made me tremble for the success of either. Each trusted me to the utmost,
and in the long weeks of experimentation that followed I was made a party to
both sides, listening to their theorizings and witnessing their
demonstrations. Never, by word or sign, did I convey to either the slightest
hint of the other's progress, and they respected me for the seal I put upon my
lips.
Lloyd Inwood, after prolonged and unintermittent application, when the tension
upon his mind and body became too great to bear, had a strange way of
obtaining relief. He attended prize fights. It was at one of these brutal
exhibitions, whither he had dragged me in order to tell his latest results,
that his theory received striking confirmation.
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