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Title: The White Invaders

Author: Raymond King Cummings

Release Date: February 10, 2007 [EBook #20551]

Language: English

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[Illustration]

The White Invaders

_A Complete Novelette_

By Ray Cummings

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| Out of their unknown fourth |
| dimensional realm materializes a |
| horde of White Invaders with |
| power invincible. |
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CHAPTER I

_A White Shape in the Moonlight_

The colored boy gazed at Don and me with a look of terror.

"But I tell you I seen it!" he insisted. "An' it's down there now. A
ghost! It's all white an' shinin'!"

"Nonsense, Willie," Don turned to me. "I say, Bob, what do you make
of this?"

"I seen it, I tell you," the boy broke in. "It ain't a mile from
here if you want to go look at it."

Don gripped the colored boy whose coffee complexion had taken on a
greenish cast with his terror.

[Illustration: _I fired at an oncoming white figure._]

"Stop saying that, Willie. That's absolute rot. There's no such
thing as a ghost."

"But I seen--"

"Where?"

"Over on the north shore. Not far."

"What did you see?" Don shook him. "Tell us exactly."

"A man! I seen a man. He was up on a cliff just by the golf course
when I first seen him. I was comin' along the path down by the Fort
Beach an' I looked up an' there he was, shinin' all white in the
moonlight. An' then before I could run, he came floatin' down at
me."

"Floating?"

"Yes. He didn't walk. He came down through the rocks. I could see
the rocks of the cliff right through him."

Don laughed at that. But neither he nor I could set this