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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: We turned then, and proceeded to the third wall and followed
it. But we really had no hope of finding an exit since Harry had
said that he had previously explored it. We were possessed, I
know, by the same thought: should we venture to follow the fourth
wall? Alone, none of us would have dared; but the presence of the
others lessened the fear of each.
Finally we reached it. The corner was a sharp right angle,
and there were rifts and crevices in the rock.
"This is limestone," I said, "and if we find an exit anywhere
it will be here."
I turned to the right and proceeded slowly along the wall,
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