The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: "He's at Snell's yet. Bern, I hevn't told you yet thet the
rustlers hev been raisin' hell. They shot up Stone Bridge an'
Glaze, an' fer three days they've been here drinkin' an' gamblin'
an' throwin' of gold. These rustlers hev a pile of gold. If it
was gold dust or nugget gold I'd hev reason to think, but it's
new coin gold, as if it had jest come from the United States
treasury. An' the coin's genuine. Thet's all been proved. The
truth is Oldrin's on a rampage. A while back he lost his Masked
Rider, an' they say he's wild about thet. I'm wonderin' if
Lassiter could hev told the rustler anythin' about thet little
masked, hard-ridin' devil. Ride! He was most as good as Jerry
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