CHAPTER 2The human brain is the most mysterious of all instruments. Its complexities can cause rationalization to take many forms, and before Manning came in sight of the logwood cabins and small white cottages on the outskirts of Tannerville he had almost succeeded in convincing himself that the terrifying occurrence of a half hour before had been illusory.
He drove past the outlying houses and he was approaching the main street of the town. He allowed his comforting near-conviction to jell and harden until he felt that there was even less danger of its being overturned.
The crash had given him a bad jolt, and severe shock could do strange things to the mind. A hallucination? Why not! Why should he dismiss that possibility out of hand? Hallucinations were not the exclusive property of t
