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Science Adventure Stories, v. 1, issue 2, October 1938
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55. Science Adventure Stories ********************************************************** It is for this reason that I have come forth from my solitude to ask that you give up your foolhardy scheme to immortalize the world. I cannot bear to see another suffer as I have suffered. Welcome death with open arms, for death is the kindest friend of us all. Cast away your mad dreams and do not forget. In one thing the Immortal envies you earth-bound creatures. You alone can experience the blissful rest and fathom the mysterious secret that lies beyond death. To me, that is forever denied." Already the Immortal prepared to engulf himself in the magic cloak of invisibility and to depart as mysteriously as he had come. "Wait!" rang out the voice of Gerald Curry, "wait, I tell you," and his voice began to take on a fanatical note as he continued. "You came to deliver what we should consider words of wisdom, did you not, Immortal? Well, I have a gift for you. You are surprised? Never again need you be bored. This tiny vial I hold here in my hand contains the elixer of death. It alone will counteract the effects of the immortality serum. Would you like to have some? Death is what you long for, is it not?" A flicker of fear snapped across the features of the Immortal. Desperately he fiddled with a set of buttons on the tiny black box he carried. His apparatus seemed to have failed him and with the terror-stricken expression of a hunted animal, the Immotal gazed wildly about him. Escape was impossible. Magically, dim sections of the amphitheatre transformed into dozens of resolute shapes with a sharply defined purpose. Threatenly, old Curry advanced upon the
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55. Science Adventure Stories ********************************************************** It is for this reason that I have come forth from my solitude to ask that you give up your foolhardy scheme to immortalize the world. I cannot bear to see another suffer as I have suffered. Welcome death with open arms, for death is the kindest friend of us all. Cast away your mad dreams and do not forget. In one thing the Immortal envies you earth-bound creatures. You alone can experience the blissful rest and fathom the mysterious secret that lies beyond death. To me, that is forever denied." Already the Immortal prepared to engulf himself in the magic cloak of invisibility and to depart as mysteriously as he had come. "Wait!" rang out the voice of Gerald Curry, "wait, I tell you," and his voice began to take on a fanatical note as he continued. "You came to deliver what we should consider words of wisdom, did you not, Immortal? Well, I have a gift for you. You are surprised? Never again need you be bored. This tiny vial I hold here in my hand contains the elixer of death. It alone will counteract the effects of the immortality serum. Would you like to have some? Death is what you long for, is it not?" A flicker of fear snapped across the features of the Immortal. Desperately he fiddled with a set of buttons on the tiny black box he carried. His apparatus seemed to have failed him and with the terror-stricken expression of a hunted animal, the Immotal gazed wildly about him. Escape was impossible. Magically, dim sections of the amphitheatre transformed into dozens of resolute shapes with a sharply defined purpose. Threatenly, old Curry advanced upon the
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