The answer will be most likely be the antagonist
The pace of the text quickens to move the story to its climax, the completion of the windmill.
The pace speeds up here. Starting "By the autumn" shows that the narrator has skipped the daily, weekly or even monthly events until autumn arrives. We know the goal of this skipping is to be able to get to the part about the windmill since it is the last detail mentioned. Also, it says that "the windmill compensate for everything" showing that it is important to the animals. There are no flashbacks or examples of foreshadowing in these passages.
Well that is because no one is that stupid to get involved with an old guy who has a hook and a long black hair.
She heard about the terrible tragedy that had happend in her neighbor hood that evening. And she rushed home afterwords.