A guard will never act in such a way as to put himself in danger. Only if there is no threat. Keeping watch over a large park area, a young man doesn’t really have any duties or things to do, so he wanders around looking for an opportunity in the cover of night. Suddenly he meets a woman in distress, and his moral duty taps at his conscience.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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