Aliens

A bracketed note says an earlier version of "Aliens" was published in London in 1914, and that some copies were also distributed in the United States. The preface says "So many people are unaware of the number of works of fiction which have been rewritten after publication" and "I was rather surprised myself when I came to recapitulate them". The narrator says that Mrs. Carville was "stooping over the brazier" and that her movements "were being watched not only by ourselves, but by her two children".

The narrator describes sumach and stramonium that Bill had encouraged "along our frontiers, under an illusion that plants labelled 'poisonous' in her American gardening book would decimate the fowls". The narrator recalls the Chief telling him of a doctor who "had never left it since except to spend a month every year in Egypt", a "Great student of mummies". The narrator speaks of "my friend Carville, who now appears in the daily press rather frequently under his flying name of Francis Lord".