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William McFee. Aliens

Aliens

Table of Contents

PREFACE

ALIENS

CHAPTER I

The "Scaldino"

CHAPTER II

HIS CHILDREN

CHAPTER III

A Letter from Wigborough

CHAPTER IV

Miss Fraenkel

CHAPTER V

He Comes

CHAPTER VI

He Begins His Tale

CHAPTER VII

Diaporesis

CHAPTER VIII

He Continues His Tale

CHAPTER IX

We Await Developments

CHAPTER X

Another Letter from Wigborough

CHAPTER XI

Mr. Carville Sees Three Green Lights

AEROPHONE MESSAGE FROM CARVILLE; OVER HELIGOLAND; ALARM IN GERMANY. Copyright by The London "Morning."

CHAPTER XII

The Vision from the Kills[A]

CHAPTER XIII

Miscellany

CHAPTER XIV

Discussion

CHAPTER XV

Conclusion

FOOTNOTES:

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William McFee

Published by Good Press, 2019

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There was, moreover, a deeper reason for our disquietude. We realized, afterward, that those children, one dark and one fair, had been quite unconscious of our existence before. Numberless times they had passed us, even crossing our land on a short cut to the forest road, but without recognition. And though, in a pause between two absorbing interests, in a moment of disengagement from the more important matters of American childhood, they now deigned to favour us with their frank attention, it was rather disparagement than curiosity they exhibited. We now know the feelings of a Living Wonder in a show.

"Hello," remarked the elder, the dark one, dispassionately, and we almost jumped. The other child fixed his eye on my slippers, which were of carpet and roomy. It seemed to me that the time had come to tell them of their lack of good manners.

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