CHAPTER XXVI

THE ABDUCTION When the Very Young Man left them so unceremoniously the Chemist and his companions continued on their way home, talking earnestly over the serious turn affairs had taken. Of the three, the Big Business Man appeared the most perturbed. "Lylda isn't going to accomplish anything," he said. "It won't work. The thing has gone too far. It isn't politics any longer; it's a struggle against us--a hatred and fear of our supernatural powers." "If we had never come----" began the Doctor. "It probably would have…