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Updated: May 11, 2025
"I know all there is to be known." "Ah!" Sir Robert leaned forward. Lord Alberan nodded violently and glared at me. There was a pause. "What you say is very interesting," said Sir Robert at length, keeping his eyes fixed upon me. "You understand, of course, that the Blue Disease is causing a lot of anxiety?" "Anxiety?" I exclaimed. "Surely you are wrong. It has the opposite effect.
He hesitated and then looked firmly at Sarakoff. "Do I understand, sir, that you have actually put some germ into the Birmingham water-supply?" The Russian nodded. "You'll hear about it in a day or two," he said quietly. "You had permission to do this?" "No, I had no permission." "Are you aware that you are making a very extraordinary statement, sir?" "Perfectly." Lord Alberan became very red.
"Look here we must get away," I muttered. I felt like a criminal. Sarakoff clasped the bag firmly under his free arm. We began to walk hurriedly away. Our manner was furtive. Once I looked back and saw Alberan talking, with excited gestures, to the detective. They were both looking in our direction. The impulse to run possessed me. "Quick," I exclaimed, "there's a taxi. Jump in.
"Their water supply comes from Wales." We spoke no more till I turned the key of my study door behind me. It was in this way that the germ, which made so vast and strange an impression on the course of the world's history, first reached England. It had lain under the very nose of Lord Alberan, who opposed everything new automatically. Yet it, the newest of all things, escaped his vigilance.
Harden," he said, in smooth and pleasant tones, "I wish you to understand that I come here, at this unusual hour, solely in the spirit of one who desires to get all the information possible concerning the malady, called the Blue Disease, which is now sweeping over England. I understand from my friend Lord Alberan, that you know something about it." "That is true." "How much do you know?"
Lord Alberan snorted, and was about to speak, but Sir Robert held up his hand. "Tell me, Dr. Harden, did you actually contaminate the water of Birmingham?" "My friend Sarakoff and I introduced the germ that we discovered into the Elan reservoirs." "With what object?" "To endow humanity with the gift of immortality." "Ah!" he nodded gently. "The gift of immortality."
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