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postman. In an instant he remembered that horrible ghouls 

 always attend a burial, and that these ghouls often kill and eat 

 living beings. There was no time to lose, for the creature had 

 already reached the entrance of the hut. Crazed with fear, the 



postman drew his sword and made one desperate cut at his enemy, 

 and then, without daring to give a second blow, ran out of the 

 hut and into the night. 



Hours seemed to have passed before the postman arrived, half 

 dead with exhaustion and panting for breath, at the house of a 



