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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: could learn precisely what caused it to hold the door, and by
what means it released at his touch.
He found that he could close and lock the door from
within, and this he did so that there would be no chance
of his being molested while at his investigation.
He commenced a systematic search of the cabin; but his
attention was soon riveted by the books which seemed to
exert a strange and powerful influence over him, so that he
could scarce attend to aught else for the lure of the wondrous
puzzle which their purpose presented to him.
Among the other books were a primer, some child's readers,
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