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LAND OF ALWAYS-NIGHT
A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson
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? Chapter 1. THE BUTTERFLY DEATH
? Chapter 2. PLANS
? Chapter 3. THE MAN WHO WAS NOT HUMAN
? Chapter 4. THE MOCCASIN DEATH
? Chapter 5. THE MYSTERIOUS MURDERER
? Chapter 6. THE SCARED EXPLORER
? Chapter 7. BLUE LIGHTNING
? Chapter 8. DEATH IN A TELEPHONE
? Chapter 9. FROSTED DEATH
? Chapter 10. THE PATRIOT UNMASKED
? Chapter 11. ARCTIC PROCESSION
? Chapter 12. THE GOLDEN GODDESS
? Chapter 13. FLASHLIGHT TERROR
? Chapter 14. BLACK TIDINGS
? Chapter 15. GOLDEN BLACKNESS
? Chapter 16. COLD LIGHT
? Chapter 17. RENDEZVOUS TRAP
? Chapter 18. TERROR IN GOLD
? Chapter 19. EXECUTION
? Chapter 20. COLD FATE




Chapter 1. THE BUTTERFLY DEATH
IT is somewhat ridiculous to say that a human hand can resemble a butterfly. Yet this particular hand did
attain that similarity. Probably it was the way it moved, hovered, moved again, with something about it
that was remindful of a slow-motion picture being shown on a screen.

The color had something to do with the impression. The hand was white, unnatural; it might have been
fashioned of mother-of-pearl. There was something serpentine, hideous, about the way it strayed and
hovered, yet was never still. It made one think of a venomous white moth.

It made Beery Hosner think of death. Only the expression on Beery Hosmer's face told that, for be was
not saying anything. But he was trying to. His lips shaped word syllables and the muscle strings in his
scrawny throat jerked, but no sounds came out.

The horrible white hand floated up toward Beery Hosmer's face. The side street was gloomy, deserted
except for Beery Hosner and the man with the uncanny hand. The hand stood out in the murk almost as if
it were a thing of white paper with a light inside.

Beery Hosner went through a convulsion of fright. Beery was a rather unusual fellow. He was a crook
who looked the part. At best, he was rather a sickening specimen, and now his aspect was doubly
unwholesome. He managed to pump words out.