Chapter 34

War had invaded the laboratory, and it had become a theatre of operations, the most seriously injured bodies in which life still lingered being brought down this great distance for the facilities which it provided. Those who had sought to postpone the desire of death by searching for curious knowledge in the bodies of other creatures were now working with a recovered energy to repair those of their younger fellows. Those who had boasted that their youth was of an invincible immortality were now being carried in, br…