[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Weird Tales January 1930. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] The first intimation the world received of the life-masters and of the doom that they were to loose upon it was contained in a news dispatch sent out by the great press syndicates from New York in the last week of May. That first article, a brief one, stated only that during the last day or so the beaches about the metropolis had been closed to bathers by reason of a thick scum of clear gray, jelly-like substance that had been left upon them by the retreating tides. This …
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