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Updated: June 27, 2025
Against the starlit sky, he had an excellent view of the opening above him, and possibly by a lucky throw the stone would serve against one assailant, at least. The pat-pat-pat drew nearer and stopped, at last, on the extreme edge of the hole. A low, long-drawn sniff showed that this was no human enemy.
I jerked my eyes over my shoulder but kept my legs going. There was nothing behind, but I fancied I saw something slip into the Bush to the right. It must have been the moonlight on the moving boughs; there was a good breeze blowing now. I got down to a more level track, and was making across a spur to the main road, when "pat-pat!" "pat-pat-pat, pat-pat-pat!" it was after me again.
Whack! and a bagful of cartridges was tumbled after it. Whang! and the water-pail was crushed. Pat-pat-pat! and all the cups were in useless bits. Kellyan, safe up the tree, got no fair view to shoot could only wait till the storm-center cleared a little. The Bear chanced on a bottle of something with a cork loosely in it.
But presently he knew that small cotton carts but rattled, the volume of rumbling was as if an army moved. From up the road floated the staccato note of a staff beating its surface, and the clanking tinkle of an iron ring against the wooden staff. "A mail-carrier," Barlow said. And then to the monotonous pat-pat-pat of trotting feet the mail-carrier emerged from the grey wall of night.
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