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Young Cale Vick stood for a long time looking down at the inert thing
at his feet. Then he calmly stooped over and placed the pistol in
one of the outstretched hands, closing the stiff fingers over it.
Scattering the fire with his feet, he trampled out what was left
of the feeble flames, and then strode to the mouth of the cave. He
stood rigid for a long time, listening. A dog was howling mournfully
away off in the night; an owl was hooting somewhere in the trees
nearby. He turned and began the descent, and there was neither
remorse nor terror in his soul.
A few days later the report reached Windomville that a farmer up
the river had seen a light in Quill's Window the night that Rosabel
Vick was found, and all the superstitious shook their heads and
talked of ghosts.
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