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Updated: June 18, 2025
The blue stain rapidly vanished from eyes, skin and nails.... I regained my waking sense on the evening of the seventh day and found myself in a small country cottage whither Thornduck had borne me in a motor-car, fearing lest awakened London might seek some revenge on the discoverers of the germ. Sarakoff lay on a couch beside me, still fast asleep.
I rejoined Thornduck in the study. "Sarakoff is in a kind of trance," I observed. "What do you make of it?" "Isn't it natural?" he asked. "What kind of a man was he? What motives did he work on? Just think what the killing of desire means.
Eventually it appears that a decision was reached to leave London on a certain date and migrate southwards in search of a region where a colony might be founded under laws and customs suitable for Immortals. Thornduck says that there was one thing that struck him very forcibly at the meeting at St. Paul's.
My visitor came in calmly, and sat down opposite me. "My name is Thornduck," he said. "I came to consult you about my health a few days ago." "I remember," I said. "Your front door was open so I walked in." I nodded. His eyes, stained with blue, rested on me. "I have been thinking," he said. "It struck me that there was something you forgot to tell me the other day." I nodded again.
Blue-stained people began to throng the streets of London in vast masses, moving to and fro without aim or purpose, perfectly orderly, vacant, lost like Sarakoff's butterflies.... Thornduck came to see me one day when the reign of the germ was practically absolute in London. "They are wandering into the country in thousands," he remarked. "They have lost all sense of home and possession.
The enormity of this revelation engrossed me with an almost painful activity of thought. I gazed across at Sarakoff and wondered what appalling gulf divided our views on supreme things. What view did he really take of women? Did he or did he not think that the planets and stars were inhabited? Did he believe in the evolution of the soul like Mr. Thornduck?
"But you believe in some theory of evolution of slow upward progress?" "Yes, of course. That is proved beyond all doubt." "And yet you think it applies only to the body to the instrument and not to the immaterial side of us?" I stared at him in astonishment. "I do not think there is any immaterial side, Mr. Thornduck." He smiled. "A very unsatisfying view, surely?" he remarked.
"What is your own view of your case, Mr. Thornduck?" He looked surprised. His face relaxed, and he smiled. I suppose he detected a message of hope in my expression. "I have been told by half-a-dozen doctors that I have not long to live, Dr. Harden," he replied. "But it is very difficult for me to grasp that view. I find that I behave as if nothing were the matter. I still go on working.
"I wonder if it's all black magic?" "That's what Hammer suggested. I don't know what kind of magic it is." "Of course it is magic," said Thornduck. "Magic?" "Of course. Have you even thought what kind of magic it is?" "No." "A big magic, such as you have worked, is just bringing the distant future into the present with a rush." "Sarakoff had some such idea," I murmured.
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