Sarakoff spoke again.
"Harden," he muttered thickly, "there was a flaw—in the dream——"
"Yes," I said. "I was sure there would be a flaw. I hadn't noticed it before——"
"We're cut off," he whispered. "Cut off."
CHAPTER XXI
JASON
Next morning the headlines of the newspapers blazed out the news of the meeting at the Queen's Hall, and the world read the words of Sarakoff.
Strange to say, most of the papers seemed inclined to view the situation seriously.
"If," said one in a leading article, "it really means that immortality is coming to humanity—and there is, at least, much evidence from Birmingham that supports the view that the germ cures all sickness—then we are indeed face to face with a strange problem. For how will immortality affect us as a community? As a community, we live together on the tacit assumption that the old will die and the young will take their place. All our laws and customs are based on this idea. We can scarcely think of any institution that is not established upon the certainty of death. What, then, if death ceases? Our food supply——"