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    The Invaders
    The Invaders
    The Invaders
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    The Invaders

    By Vincent Napoli and Benjamin Ferris

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Invaders - Vincent Napoli

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Invaders, by Benjamin Ferris

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: The Invaders

      Author: Benjamin Ferris

      Release Date: November 18, 2007 [EBook #23535]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE INVADERS ***

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      The Invaders

      BY BENJAMIN FERRIS

      Heading by Vincent Napoli

      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Weird Tales March 1951. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      Magic—there's no such thing. But the crops were beginning to grow backwards....

      Big Joe Merklos was the first of them. He appeared at the Wide Bend National Bank one day, cash in hand. The charm of him, his flashing smile, the easy strength in his big body, were persuasive recommendations. But the bank's appraisal scarcely got that far. Wasn't he the first buyer in fifteen years for that bone-yard of lonely dreams, Dark Valley?

      The county seat of Wide Bend presided over three valleys, corresponding to the forks of the Sallinook River. Once, Dark Valley had been the richest of these. Solid houses and barns stood among orchards laden with fruit, fields chock-full of heavy-bearded grain ... till, one Spring, the middle fork of the river had dried up.

      The farmers called in specialists who sank wells and pilot holes, measured the slopes. They heard much talk about water tables, about springs undercutting rock formations. But when it was done the fact remained: Dark Valley's water supply was choked off beyond man's ability to restore it. In the end the farmers gave up, left their dusty houses and shriveled orchards, and Dark Valley died.

      Boys hiked over there occasionally. Men scouted for fence posts or pipe. Young couples passed quickly through on moonlight nights. And at least two stubborn old-timers still squatted at the upper end.

      Now that Joe Merklos had bought it, of course, they would have to move.

      Well, won't they? Henderson asked.

      Jerry Bronson looked around at the other members of the Wide Bend Businessmen's Club. Doesn't take a lawyer to answer that, Hen.

      Dam' shame, said Caruso, the barber, who always championed underdogs.

      They've had no equity in that land for years. The bank just let them stay on.

      "They can move on over

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