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Title: The Fire People

Author: Ray Cummings

Release Date: June 13, 2008 [eBook #25780]

Language: English

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This e-text was produced from _Argosy All-Story Weekly_,
October 21 and 28 and November, 4, 11, and 18, 1922.

THE FIRE PEOPLE

by

RAY CUMMINGS

Author of "The Golden Atom," etc.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF THE LIGHT.
CHAPTER II. THE UNKNOWN ENEMY.
CHAPTER III. THE LANDING OF THE INVADERS.
CHAPTER IV. THE MEETING.
CHAPTER V. CAPTURED!
CHAPTER VI. MIELA.
CHAPTER VII. THE MERCUTIAN CAMP.
CHAPTER VIII. THE ESCAPE.
CHAPTER IX. FUTILE ATTACKS.
CHAPTER X. MIELA'S STORY.
CHAPTER XI. TO SAVE THE WORLD.
CHAPTER XII. THE LANDING ON MERCURY.
CHAPTER XIII. THE CAPTIVE EARTH-MAN.
CHAPTER XIV. THE RULER OF THE LIGHT COUNTRY.
CHAPTER XV. THE MOUNTAIN CONCLAVE.
CHAPTER XVI. THE FIRE PLANET.
CHAPTER XVII. THE FIGHT AT THE BAYOU.
CHAPTER XVIII. REVOLUTION.
CHAPTER XIX. THE NEW RULER.
CHAPTER XX. IN THE TWILIGHT COUNTRY.
CHAPTER XXI. ANOTHER LIGHT-RAY!
CHAPTER XXII. THE THEFT OF THE LIGHT-RAY.
CHAPTER XXIII. THE STROM.
CHAPTER XXIV. THE WATER CITY.
CHAPTER XXV. PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.
CHAPTER XXVI. THE BATTLE.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE SIEGE OF THE LONE CITY.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE END OF TAO.
CHAPTER XXIX. THE RETURN.

CHAPTER I.

THE COMING OF THE LIGHT.

The first of the new meteors lan