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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: his heavy armor, forced them steadily back; his flashing
blade seeming to weave a net of steel about them. Sud-
denly his sword stopped just for an instant, stopped
in the heart of one of his opponents, and as the man
lunged to the floor it was flashing again close to the
breasts of the two remaining men-at-arms.
Another went down less than ten seconds later, and
then the girl's attention was called to the face of the
horrified Baron; Peter of Colfax was moving--slowly and
cautiously, he was creeping, from behind, toward the
visored knight, and in his raised hand flashed a
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