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- One winter night, somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians, a man stood watching and listening, as if waiting for some beast of the woods to come within range of his vision, and later, of his rifle. But the game for which he kept such a keen eye on was not one that appeared on the sportsman's calendar as legal and suitable for the chase; Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in search of a human adversary.
- unclaimed
- The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent and stocked with game, but the narrow strip of precipitous woodland that lay on its outskirt was the most jealously guarded of all its owner's territorial possessions. A famous law suit had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring family of petty landowners, but a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations. Ulrich had banded together his foresters to watch the dark forest, not in quest of four-footed quarry, but to keep a look-out for the prowling thieves. The roebuck, which usually kept in the sheltered hollows during a storm-wind, were running like driven things to-night, and there was movement and unrest among the creatures. Ulrich could guess the quarter from whence it came.
- Gradwitz
- He strayed away by himself from the watchers whom he had placed in ambush on the crest of the hill, and wandered far down the steep slopes amid the wild tangle of undergrowth, peering through the tree trunks and listening through the whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of the branches for sight and sound of the marauders. If only on this wild night, in this dark, lone spot, he might come across Georg Znaeym, man to man, with none to witness - that was the wish that was uppermost in his thoughts.
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