The Roof Tree

Between the smoke-darkened walls of the mountain cabin still murmured the last echoes of the pistol's bellowing, and it seemed a voice of everlasting duration to the shock-sickened nerves of those within. First it had thundered with the deafening exaggeration of confined space, then its echo had beaten against the clay-chink wall timbers and rolled upward to the rafters. Now, dwindled to a ghostly whisper, it lingered and persisted. But the house stood isolated, and outside the laurelled forests and porous cliffs soaked up the dissonance as a blotter soaks ink.

• • Author: Charles Neville Buck
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: May 04, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 164 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1523895519
• • ISBN-13: 9781523895519