After the Manner of Men

After the Manner of Men

COINCIDENT with a miniature thunderclap shattering the summer afternoon silence of the mountain forest a bullet whipped through the foliage, leaving a half-severed twig to flutter and dangle within easy arms reach. Tregarvon had never before been under fire, and he was a product of twentieth-century civilization and the cities. Yet his colonial ancestor, figuring as a seasoned Indian fighter in Braddocks disaster, could scarcely have picked his sheltering tree with better judgment or dropped behind it with more mechanical celerity. Great Peter! he exclaimed, under his breath, struggling to draw the pocket-entangled weapon which he had persuaded himself to add to his impedimenta before leaving Philadelphia, under the impression that it would be a necessary part of a land-lookers equipment in the Tennessee mountains; Great Pete [2]The pocket yielded with a sound of tearing cloth, and the first shock of panic subsided. Crouching behind his tree, the Philadelphian twirled the cylinder of the revolver to make sure that all the chambers were filled. While he was doing this there was another report, and this time the bullet scored the sheltering oak. Tregarvon edged himself into position, with due regard for the enemys line of fire, and cocked his weapon, not, however, with any reassuring confidence in it, or in his own steadiness of nerve. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 66631
Author: Lynde, Francis
Release Date: Oct 30, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Publication Date: 1916
Publisher Country: United States

Contributors

Illustrator: Becher, Arthur E., 1877-1960