A cry of mourning, intolerably loud, rose from beyond the willows and hung on
the night air. A thrush whirred out of the thicket close to her face, and the
cry broke and wavered again. It was the howl of a dog. She pushed through the
thicket into an opening by the river, and found the body of Colonel Carterette
with his spaniel beside it, mourning him.
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