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    Where the World Is Quiet
    Where the World Is Quiet
    Where the World Is Quiet
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    Where the World Is Quiet

    By Henry Kuttner

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    Fra Rafael saw strange things, impossible things. Then there was the mystery of the seven young virginal girls of Huascan.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Publishing LLC
    Release dateOct 20, 2016
    ISBN9781682995228
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    Where the World Is Quiet - Henry Kuttner

    Where the World Is Quiet

    by Henry Kuttner

    Start Publishing LLC

    Copyright © 2015 by Start Publishing LLC

    All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

    First Start Publishing eBook edition July 2015

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    Manufactured in the United States of America

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    ISBN 13:978-1-68299-522-8

    Where the World Is Quiet

    by Henry Kuttner

    The life of an anthropologist is no doubt filled much of the time with the monotonous routine of carefully assembling powdery relics of ancient races and civilizations. But White’s lone Peruvian odyssey was most unusual. A story pseudonymously penned by one of the greats in the genre.

    Fra Rafael saw strange things, impossible things. Then there was the mystery of the seven young virginal girls of Huascan.

    Fra Rafael drew the llama-wool blanket closer about his narrow shoulders, shivering in the cold wind that screamed down from Huascan. His face held great pain. I rose, walked to the door of the hut and peered through fog at the shadowy haunted lands that lifted toward the sky—the Cordilleras that make a rampart along Peru’s eastern border.

    There’s nothing, I said. Only the fog, Fra Rafael.

    He made the sign of the cross on his breast. It is the fog that brings the—the terror, he said. "I tell you, Señor White, I have seen strange things these last few months—impossible things. You are a scientist. Though we are not of the same religion, you also know that there are powers not of this earth."

    I didn’t answer, so he went on: "Three months ago it began, after the earthquake. A native girl disappeared. She was seen going into the mountains, toward Huascan along the Pass, and she did not come back. I sent men out to find her. They went up the Pass, found the fog grew thicker and thicker until they were blind and could see nothing. Fear came

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