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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: centre of which was the pool in which lay our submarine,
floating as we had first seen her with only her black back showing.
Around the edge of the pool was a level platform, and then
the walls of the cave rose perpendicularly for a few feet
to arch toward the centre of the low roof. The walls
about the ledge were pierced with a number of entrances to
dimly lighted passageways.
Toward one of these our captors led us, and after a short
walk halted before a steel cage which lay at the bottom of a
shaft rising above us as far as one could see.
The cage proved to be one of the common types of elevator
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