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    Cully
    Cully
    Cully
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    Cully

    By George Luther Schelling and Jack Egan

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Cully - George Luther Schelling

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Cully, by Jack Egan

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

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      Title: Cully

      Author: Jack Egan

      Illustrator: Schelling

      Release Date: October 2, 2008 [EBook #26751]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CULLY ***

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      By all the laws of nature, he should have been dead. But if he were alive ... then there was something he had to find.

      CULLY

      By JACK EGAN

      Illustrated by SCHELLING

      Above him eighty feet of torpid, black water hung like a shroud of Death, and still he heard his ragged breathing. And something else. Cully concentrated on that sound, and the rhythmic pulsing of his heart. Somehow he had to retain a hold on his sanity ... or his soul.

      After an hour of careful breathing and exploring of body sensations, Cully realized he could move. He flexed an arm; a mote of gold sand sifted upward in the dark water. It had a pleasant color, in contrast with the ominous shades of the sea. In a few moments, he had struggled to a sitting position, delighting in the curtain

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