After the Manner of Men

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Excerpt from After the Manner of MenHarboring this distrust, he was content for the moment to make himself small behind his tree, sitting between two of the flanking root buttresses with his back against the barrier trunk, and wine ing in spite of himself While other bullets, follow ing now in rapid and measured succession, Whined to right or left, or buried themselves in the solid wood. Oddly enough, the misses, though he could feel the wind of them on either side, were less disquieting than the hits. At each impact of lead against wood there was a jarring little shock quite thrillingly transm...