Gray Denim

By Harl Vincent

Beneath the huge central arch in Cooper Square a meeting was in progress-a gathering of the gray-clad workers of the lower levels of New York. Less than two hundred of their number were in evidence, and these huddled in dejected groups around the pedestal from which a fiery-tongued orator was addressing them. Lounging negligently at the edge of the small crowd were a dozen of the red police.

"I tell you, comrades," the speaker was shouting, "the time has come when we must revolt. We must battle to the death with the wearers of the purple. Why work out our lives down here so they can live in the lap of luxury over our heads? Why labor day after day at the oxygen generators to give them the fresh air they breathe?"

The speaker paused uncertainly as a chorus of raucous laughter came to his ears. He glared belligerently at a group of newcomers who stood aloof from his own gathering. Seven or eight of them there were, and they wore the gray with obvious discomfort. Slummers! Well, they'd hear something they could carry back with them when they returned to their homes!

"Why," he continued in rising tones, "do we sit at the controls of the pneumatic tubes which carry thousands of our fellows to tasks equally irksome, while they of the purple ride their air yachts to the pleasure cities of the sky lanes? Never in the history of mankind have the poor been poorer and the rich richer!"

"Yah!" shouted a disrespectful voice from among the newcomers. "You're full o' bunk! Nothing but bunk!"

An ominous murmur swelled from the crowd and the red police roused from their lethargy. The mounting scream of a siren echoed in the vaulted recesses above and re-echoed from the surrounding columns-the call for reserves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: XinXii
• Release date: Nov 21, 2015
• ISBN: 9781612100081

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Gray Denim

Harl Vincent

Copyright © December 1930 By Harl Vincent

This edition published in 2010 by eStar Books, LLC.

www.estarbooks.com

ISBN 978-1-61210-008-1

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Professor Nilsson Series-

Golden Girl of Munan

The War of the Planets

Professor Timkin Series-

Venus Liberated

Faster Than Light

Subterrania Series-

The Menance from Below

The Return to Subterrania

Callisto Series-

The Explorers of Callisto

Callisto at War

Carr Parker Series-

Vagabonds of Space

Creatures of Vibration

Purple and Gray Series-

Gray Denim

Power

Master Control

Ridge Coler Series-

Water-Bound World

When the Comet Returned

Lost City of Mars

Prowler Series-

Prowler of the Wastelands

Return of the Prowler

Non Series-

The Ambassador from Mars

The Seventh Generation

Barton’s Island

The Yellow Air- Peril

Through the Air Tunnel

Microcosmic Buccaneers

The Colloidal Menace

Old Crompton’s Secret

Before the Asteroids

The Terror of Air Level Six

Silver Dome

Free Energy

Tanks Under the Sea

Terrors Unseen

Invisible Ships

Too Many Boards

Beyond the Dark Nebula

The Moon Weed

The Copper-Clad World

Red Twilight

A Matter of Ethics

Sky Cops

Once in a Blue Moon

Vulcan’s Workshop

Thia of the Drylands

Roadways of mars

Wanderer of Infinity

Canvern of Thunders

Whisper of Death

Telegraph Plateau

Master of Dreams

Cats Eye

Rex

Synthetic

The Barrier

Cosmic Rhythm

Energy

Valley of Rukh

The Plane Compass

Parasite

The Challenge from Beyond

Prince Deru Returns

Newscast

The Devil Flower

The Morons

Master of the Collapsing Skyscrapers

Lightning Strikes Once

Power Plant

Neutral Vessel

High-Frequency War

Undersea Prisoner

Gravity Island

Deputy Correspondent

Life Inside a Wall

Trouble Shooter

Other World

Grave of Achilles

Lunar Station

Crime by Chart

Voice from the Void

Invader

The Lethal Planetoid

Space Storm

Gray Denim

By Harl Vincent

There came a stabbing pencil of light from over Karl’s shoulder.

Beneath the huge central arch in Cooper Square a meeting was in progress—a gathering of the gray-clad workers of the lower levels of New York. Less than two hundred of their number were in evidence, and these huddled in dejected groups around the pedestal from which a fiery-tongued orator was addressing them. Lounging negligently at the edge of the small crowd were a dozen of the red police.

I tell you, comrades, the speaker was shouting, the time has come when we must revolt. We must battle to the death with the wearers of the purple. Why work out our lives down here so they can live in the lap of luxury over our heads? Why labor day after day at the oxygen generators to give them the fresh air they breathe?

The speaker paused uncertainly as a chorus of raucous laughter came to his ears. He glared belligerently at a group of newcomers