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Title: The Keeper

Author: Henry Beam Piper

Release Date: September 20, 2006 [EBook #19338]

Language: English

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This etext was produced from Venture Science Fiction, July 1957. Extensive research did not uncover
any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
Evil men had stolen his treasure, and Raud set out with his
deer rifle and his great dog Brave to catch the thieves
before they could reach the Starfolk. That the men had
negatron pistols meant littleтАФRaud was the Keeper....




THE KEEPER

by H. BEAM PIPER
When he heard the deer crashing through brush and scuffling the dead leaves, he stopped and stood
motionless in the path. He watched them bolt down the slope from the right and cross in front of him,
wishing he had the rifle, and when the last white tail vanished in the gray-brown woods he drove the
spike of the ice-staff into the stiffening ground and took both hands to shift the weight of the pack. If he'd
had the rifle, he could have shot only one of them. As it was, they were unfrightened, and he knew where
to find them in the morning.