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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: will mean a captaincy for me at least. Let me at him--no
man can strike Karl Schonau and live."
"The king is unarmed," cried Emma von der Tann. "Would
you murder him in cold blood?"
"He shall not murder him at all, your highness," said
Lieutenant Butzow quietly. "Give me your sword, Lieuten-
ant Schonau. I place you under arrest. What you have just
said will not please the Regent when it is reported to him.
You should keep your head better when you are angry."
"It is the truth," growled Schonau, regretting that his
anger had led him into a disclosure of the plot against the
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