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Out of Space, by Joseph Everidge Kelleam
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Title: Hunters Out of Space
Author: Joseph Everidge Kelleam
Release Date: May 1, 2008 [EBook #25270]
Language: English
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HUNTERS
OUT OF
SPACE
By JOSEPH E. KELLEAM
CHAPTER 1
In Kansas, spring usually falls on the day before summer. It had been such a day, and now at midnight I was sitting at my desk. Both hands of the clock were pointing to the ceiling--and to the limitless stars beyond. My wife and daughter had long been asleep. I had stayed up to write a few letters but it was not a night for working. Although it was a bit chilly outside, the moon was bright and a bird was singing a glad and plaintive song about the summer that was coming and all the summers that had passed and all that would be. Adding, here and there, a bit of melody about all the good things that happen to birds and men without their knowing why.
Both hands of the clock were pointing upward. And I was half-asleep, and half-dreaming. Remembering all the fri