Mr. Tanimoto is a small man, quick to talk, laugh,
and cry. He wears his black hair parted in the middle
and rather long ; the prominence of the frontal bones
just above his eyebrows and the smallness of his
moustache, mouth, and chin give him a strange, old-
young look, boyish and yet wise, weak and yet fiery.
He moves nervously and fast, but with a restraint which
suggests that he is a cautious, thoughtful man. He
showed, indeed, just those qualities in the uneasy days
before the bomb fell. Besides having his wife spend
the nights in Ushida, Mr. Tanimoto had been carrying
all the portable things from his church, in the close-
packed residential district called Nagaragawa, to a
house that belonged to a rayon manufacturer in Koi,
two miles from the centre of town.

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