Edmond Hamilton - The Valley of Creation

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The Valley Of Creation
Edmond Hamilton
Table of Contents
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Chapter I. ALIEN DREAM.....................................................................................................................1
Chapter II. STRANGE BEASTS.............................................................................................................6
Chapter III. INTO MYSTERY..............................................................................................................13
Chapter IV. HIDDEN LAND................................................................................................................18
Chapter V. WOLF HATRED................................................................................................................23
Chapter VI. DARING PLAN.................................................................................................................29
Chapter VII. SECRET MISSION..........................................................................................................34
Chapter VIII. WEIRD CITY..................................................................................................................40
Chapter IX. JUDGMENT OF THE GUARDIAN.................................................................................45
Chapter X. DREAD METAMORPHOSIS............................................................................................49
Chapter XI. FOREST DANGER...........................................................................................................54
Chapter XII. DEATH IN ANSHAN......................................................................................................59
Chapter XIII. THE FIGHT IN THE PALACE......................................................................................65
Chapter XIV. RETURN TO DOOM.....................................................................................................70
Chapter XV. THE WRATH OF THE CLANS......................................................................................73
Chapter XVI. THE CAVERN OF CREATION....................................................................................79
Chapter XVII. THE DAY OF THE BROTHERHOOD........................................................................85
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The Valley Of Creation
Edmond Hamilton
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Chapter I. ALIEN DREAM• Chapter II. STRANGE BEASTS• Chapter III. INTO MYSTERY• Chapter IV. HIDDEN LAND• Chapter V. WOLF HATRED• Chapter VI. DARING PLAN• Chapter VII. SECRET MISSION• Chapter VIII. WEIRD CITY• Chapter IX. JUDGMENT OF THE GUARDIAN• Chapter X. DREAD METAMORPHOSIS• Chapter XI. FOREST DANGER• Chapter XII. DEATH IN ANSHAN• Chapter XIII. THE FIGHT IN THE PALACE• Chapter XIV. RETURN TO DOOM• Chapter XV. THE WRATH OF THE CLANS• Chapter XVI. THE CAVERN OF CREATION• Chapter XVII. THE DAY OF THE BROTHERHOOD•
Chapter I. ALIEN DREAM
It seemed to Eric Nelson that a strange voice spoke in his mind as he lay in drink−drugged sleep, here in the
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squalid inn of a Chinese frontier village.
“Shall I kill, little sister?”
The voice was mental, not physical. His brain recorded it, not through his ears but directly.
And it was not human. There was an alien quality in its vibration that set even his dreaming mind bristling.
“No, Turk! You were to watch, not to kill! Not—yet!”
To Nelson the answering mental voice seemed human enough. But though it lacked the uncannily alien
quality of the first, it was chill, silvery, merciless.
He knew that he was dreaming. He knew that he lay here in the battle−wrecked frontier village of Yen Shi,
that he had drunk too much to forget the doom that stared him and his companions in the face, that fatigue and
too much liquor were doing this to him.
Yet it was creepily real, this swift, urgent dialogue of voices that only his mind could hear. And again his
nerves crawled at the non−human strangeness of the first voice.
“They should all die now, little sister! For he even now seeks them out, to hire them as our foes! Ei has
brought me word!”
“Turk, no! Watch only till I order—“
Nerve−tension snapped and Eric Nelson found himself scrambling up from his blankets, staring wildly around
the dark room.
A black flying shadow leaped for the open window and was gone as his blurred eyes focused—a shadow that
was not human!
With a strangled exclamation, Nelson lurched to the window, plucking the heavy pistol from his belt.
Great wings flapped suddenly out there in the night, rapidly receeding. He leveled the pistol but he could see
nothing, and after a moment there were no more sounds.
Eric Nelson stood bewildered, his skin still creeping from the uncanny terror of the experience. His brain was
fogged by sleep and by the sick aftertaste of the previous night's drinking.
Gradually his bristling nerves quieted. There was nothing out there in the dark—nothing but the few blinking
lights of the wretched mud village, cowering underneath the silent stars, close beside the black wall of the
great mountains that shouldered all the way to Tibet.
Dawn was coming. Nelson holstered his gun and ran his hands heavily over his unshaven face. Waves of pain
surged up through his eyeballs as he turned from the window.
“Too much to drink,” he muttered. “No wonder I'm hearing—and seeing—things.”
He made a deliberate effort to thrust down the uncanny strangeness of his experience, to forget it. But he
couldn't, quite.
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It was not the mere fact of the voices that was so weird. The brain heard strange things in dreams. It was the
alien, somehow husky quality of that first voice that still shook him.
Nelson lit a clay oil−lamp. Its flickering rays and the growing light of dawn showed nothing unusual in the
bare, squalid little room. He put on his uniform−jacket and went through a door into the common−room of the
deserted inn. Three of his four fellow−officers were in the room.
Two of them, the big Dutchman, Piet Van Voss, and Lefty Wister, the spidery little Cockney, were snoring in
their bunks.
Nick Sloan, the third, stood shaving in front of a tiny steel mirror, his big body easily balanced on firm−set
feet, his flat, hard brown face looking coolly over his shoulder at Nelson.
“I heard you yell in there,” Sloan said. “Bad dream?”
Eric Nelson hesitated. “I don't know. There was something in the room. A shadow—”
“I'm not surprised,” Sloan drawled unsympathetically. “You were pretty stiff last night.”
Nelson was suddenly resentfully aware of the contrast of his disheveled figure and tumbled blond hair with
Sloan's competent neatness.
“Yes, I was drunk last night,” he said harshly. “And I'll be drunk again tonight and tomorrow night also.”
A patient voice sighed from the doorway. “Not tomorrow night, Captain Nelson. No.”
Nelson turned. It was Li Kin who stood in the doorway. He made an absurd figure, his scrawny little body
swathed in a major's uniform far too big for him. His gentle, fine−planed face was sagging with weariness and
behind his thick−lensed spectacles his black eyes held sadness.
“A full column of the Chinese Red Army is on its way here from Nun−Yan,” he said. “It will be here by
tomorrow noon.”
Nick Sloan's tawny eyes narrowed slightly. “That's pretty fast action. But it's only what we expected.”
Yes, Eric Nelson thought heavily. It was only what they had expected.
They five had been staff officers for Yu Chi, a onetime minor warlord in the old China who had fled the
country when the Communists took over. For years, Yu Chi had made his base in the no−man's−land of wild
mountains that thrust up like a fist between China, Burma and Tibet, a region where boundaries and
sovereignties were shadowy things. Every so often the old warlord, posing as a liberator, had made a foray
which pretended to be a guerrilla action against the Reds but which was really a looting raid.
Of the five of them, Li Kin was the only one with any patriotic motives. The others were frankly mercenaries,
picking up whatever they could in the troubles of southeast Asia. Nelson had been such a mercenary for ten
years, ever since the Korean War ended and he decided that he liked adventure too much to go home. Nick
Sloan had been in Asia nearly as long. Van Voss and the little Cockney were fugitive criminals, but tough
fighting−men.
But now the five were at the end of their rope. Yu Chi had gone on one “liberation” raid too many, and had
walked into a tiger−trap of Red troops here. They had won the battle, and the town. But Yu Chi was dead, his
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