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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Come, then," I cried, "we must make the start, for we
could not be further from escape than we now are in the
heart of this mountain and within the four walls of this
chamber of death."
"Come, then," said the girl, "but do not flatter yourself that you
can find no worse place than this within the territory of the therns."
So saying she swung the secret panel that separated us
from the apartment in which I had found her, and we stepped
through once more into the presence of the other prisoners.
There were in all ten red Martians, men and women, and
when we had briefly explained our plan they decided to join
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