Bob, son of Battle . ~^2Z=7 ^tzZ. CHAPTER XVI THE BLACK KILLER THAT, as James Moore had predicted, was the firstonly of a long succession of such solitary crimes. Those who have not lived in a desolate country like thatabout the Muir Pike, where sheep are paramount andevery other man engaged in the profession pastoral, canbarely imagine the sensation aroused. In market place,tavern, or cottage, the subject of conversation was alwaysthe latest sheep-murder and the yet-undetected criminal. Sometimes there would be a lull, and the shepherdswould begin to breathe more freely. Then there wouldcome
Bob, son of Battle . ~^2Z=7 ^tzZ. CHAPTER XVI THE BLACK KILLER THAT, as James Moore had predicted, was the firstonly of a long succession of such solitary crimes. Those who have not lived in a desolate country like thatabout the Muir Pike, where sheep are paramount andevery other man engaged in the profession pastoral, canbarely imagine the sensation aroused. In market place,tavern, or cottage, the subject of conversation was alwaysthe latest sheep-murder and the yet-undetected criminal. Sometimes there would be a lull, and the shepherdswould begin to breathe more freely. Then there wouldcome a stormy night, when the heavens were veiled in thecloak of crime, and the wind moaned fitfully over meresand marches, and another victim would be added to thelengthening list. It was always such black nights, nights of wind andweather, when no man would be abroad, that the murdererchose for his bloody work; and that was how he became 149 IS© THE BLACK KILLER known from the Red Screes to the Muir Pike as the BlackKiller. In the
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