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He heard a noise like a pistol shot, and for a mad moment thought that, as in_Peter and the Wolf,_ a huntsman had come to save him with a big gun. Renie nodded. No particular reason. His pupils had rolled back underhis eyelids.

A large part of the thrill of Dread's hunting was the _feel_ ofthings--the blood-pumping, adrenaline-coursing, heightened real d long ago have beeneliminated, as the old man Singh had been, slain by a massive coronary in his South Africanconvalescent hospital room. It felt like it was everywhere. But here, until he had seen the resemblance in the silhouettes, hehad felt no alarm at anything except the possibility that Undine Pankie might talk all night.