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Weird Tales, Apr 1939 p63
Weird Tales, Apr 1939 p63

"Kim Idim still reached back into the past."

Armies from the Past

By EDMOND HAMILTON

A weird-scientific tale of adventure, and the clash of armed men — an exciting story of time-travel and a world enslaved — a narrative of our planet two million years hence

ETHAN DREW stood in the lamplit living-room of his penthouse apartment staring up at the sword. There was a yearning longing in his brown, aquiline face and brooding gray eyes as he gazed at the weapon. Slowly he reached up and took it down from above the stone fire-place.

It was a long, gleaming saber, its hilt and the back of its blade nicked and scarred. Lovingly he ran his finger along those scars that spoke with mute eloquence of desperate battle.