Chapter 20

_Two Primitives of the False-Skin Age were captured by the 42nd Coast Patrol. One was of a venomous kind. They were received by the Bureau of Prehistoric Zoology. The body of one was found to be suffering from microbic disease beyond sterilization, and was scrapped by the Vivisection Department. The other was transferred to the Experimental Section, after the usual method._ That was all. The fate of one of those who had preceded me was sufficiently indicated, and that of the other was, at the best, enigmatic; …