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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: run at great speed for long distances, though never as rapidly
as Numa when the latter charged.
The question of his fate, then, rested upon whether, with
his start he could elude Numa for a few seconds; and, if so,
if the lion would then have sufficient stamina remaining to
pursue him at a reduced gait for the balance of the distance
to the wall.
Never before, perhaps, was staged a more thrilling race,
and yet it was run with only the moon and stars to see. Alone
and in silence the two beasts sped across the moonlit clearing.
Numa gained with appalling rapidity upon the fleeing man,
Tarzan the Untamed |
