Lenz kills the Nuck dog (p. 586)
The distinctive sound of Gately’s meatloaf getting chewed plus the ghastly music’s zithery warbling roar. Lenz now rises and his movements in the yard have a melting and wraithlike quality in the different shades of shadow.
Context
Minutes before the knife comes out: Lenz has baited the Nucks' dog with Don Gately's meatloaf and slipped inside the gate. Wraith-diction for Lenz at the exact moment he's doing the thing that will get Gately shot — a predator rendered as apparition.