Spots of yellow-white sun trembled in brown tree-shadows on the lake-edge.

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His mental images of the ranch had blurred and faded, leaving only a house with a hole in the middle, an enormous, threatening tree, and a barn flickering with shadows that might have been rats.

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He hid behind a tree to wait for nightfall, but his plan was stymied when he found another person lurking in the shadows.

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