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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and the open gate that he might follow after the fleeing
monarch.
At the same instant Maenck, seeing that Stein was being
worsted by the American, rushed in upon the latter, and
thus relieved, the rat-faced doctor was enabled to swing a
heavy cut at Barney which struck him a glancing blow upon
the head, sending him stunned and bleeding to the sward.
Coblich and the governor of Blentz hastened toward the
gate, pausing for an instant to overwhelm Butzow. In the
fierce scrimmage that followed the lieutenant was over-
thrown, though not before his sword had passed through
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