TOWARDS "THE CROSS-ROADS" It was the beginning of the hunting season, and with the hunting season Louis Stanistreet reappeared on the scene.

He stayed at Thorneytoft as usual.

Tyson had just bought a new hunter, a remarkable animal.

It fell away suddenly in the hind-quarters; it had a neck like a giraffe and legs like a spider; but it could jump, if not very like a horse, very like a kangaroo.

This creature struck wonder and terror into the soul of the hunt.