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He brought the metal grip of his automatic down on Alan's blood-stained head
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huge bird fell like a plummet to the ground. No trigger had been pulled. No shot had been fired. But the hawk lay. a mass of rumpled feathers, dead between the hen-rows.
Old Sam strode to where it lay and turned it over. He studied the body, point by point. Then he scratched his head.
"What killed it, Dad?" asked the girl, a noteof awe in her voice.
Sam Carter looked slowly about. His gaze rested on the weather-bleached old government tower where an armed guard paced back and forth along the enclosure fence. Then it
passed on to the Golf Course where the bright but ant-like figures moved over the green billows of tuif. It came to a resl where t he windshield of an automobile, winding along the valley-road, flashed the afternoon sun back in his
"If it weren't a critter of the wild I'd call it heart-failure," said the man still holding the feathered can "For
nothin' hit that bird. Honey, unk" it was 1 he final thought of itsoncry w. But up in the tower work-shop just beyond the cr< Power House Hill no such uncertainty marked the two brownfaced young men bent over their instruments. Don Powell, the younger of the two. dropped the binoculars through which he hfd been watching the scene above the bean-field.
" By God, Alan, you got him!" he cried with an odd tremor of triumph in his voice.
Alan Holt, the older of the two. turned a switch and jerked the plug from the small dial-board in front of him. He laughed,