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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: gorge. But though he escaped the city and the forest he did
not escape the desert. For a legend runs that the king, fearful
that he would bring others to attack them, sent a party after
him to slay him.
"For three weeks they did not find him, for they went in the
wrong direction, but at last they came upon his bones picked
clean by the vultures, lying a day's march up the same gorge
through which you and I entered the valley. I do not know,"
continued the old woman, "that this is true. It is just one of
their many legends."
"Yes," said the girl, "it is true. I am sure it is true, for I
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