The sniper
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- On a rooftop near O’Connell Bridge, a Republican sniper lay watching. Beside him lay his rifle and over his shoulders was slung a pair of field glasses.
- He broke the neck of the iodine bottle and let the bitter fluid drip into thewound.
- A paroxysm ofpain swept through him. He placed the cottonwadding over the wound and wrapped the dressing over it
- The sniper darted across the street. A machine gun tore up the ground around him with a hail of bullets, but he escaped. He threw himself face downward beside the corpse. The machine gun stopped. Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother’s face
- Then he lay still against the parapet, and, closing his eyes, he made an effort of will overcome the pain. In the street beneath all was still
- The armored car had retired speedily over the bridge, with the machine gunner’s head hanging lifeless over the turret. WORDCRAFT The woman’s corpse lay still in the gutter
- The sniper laid still for a long time nursing his wounded arm and planning escape. Morning must not find him wounded on the roof.
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