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He took it from his comrade and, striding forward, attacked the nearest rampike.

The sound jarred upon Carroll’s nerves, as the thud of the felled rampike had not done, but Vane picked up one of the chips and handed it to him.

In the dust, a big rampike slanted, broke, and plunged.

You tell your story from the viewpoint of Skyler Rampike, the brother of a 6-year-old murder victim.

He slept uneasily, waking from time to time; but it was only to hear the solemn cry of a horned owl sitting on some dead limb, or rampike; or the long, wailing laughter of a loon from the water-meadows to the south.