Seven Come Infinity by Anthology

Author:Anthology [Anthology]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-08-27T00:00:00+00:00

His own house looked strange to him as if he had been gone a very long time and had forgotten the details of its lines. Yet he remembered well the last night he had been here, the night that Alice plotted murder.

He could see lights and hoped she was alone. He was not prepared for murder, but the urge would be great if Exter were there.

She was alone. He let himself in quietly and was suddenly before her in the same living room they had shared for so many long and empty years.

She uttered a scream that he thought would never die. White faced, she cowered in the depths of the sofa on which she sat.

“David! Don’t come nearer—leave me alone! Vixen promised . . . I gave you back your life!”

“I’m not going to hurt you, Alice. Please don’t be afraid, and don’t try to explain. Listen to what I have to say.”

She watched his approach as if hypnotized in terror by a creeping cobra. He sat down and put his arm along the back of the sofa, but she shrank from it.

“Something very wonderful has come out of this thing that has happened to us. We have learned how to control Synthesis, how to reorder the human mind so that life can be lived as it should be. The hates and fears can be cleaned out of our minds to make a fresh start in complete understanding and trust.

“You and I can make a fresh start. I want you to come to the laboratory with me and submit to the selector. Things can be again the way they were fifteen years ago—except better.”

Her fear-wide eyes had not blinked once. “No . . . I won’t let you do anything to me, David. You can’t make me. Go away and let me alone!”

He tried to tell her again in other words, and she remained hidden still behind her wall of terror. He felt suddenly very tired.

“Alice, you loved me once. I did nothing to let you know how much it meant to me or make it grow. But, if I thought there was nothing left of it, I’d never have come back tonight. I love you and I want you back the way we were so long ago, and it can be that way. I’m telling you the truth, Alice.”

“The day after we were married you disappeared into your laboratory, and I’ve scarcely seen you since.”

It was then that he was sure, for her eyes became soft with the fleeting memory of a time beyond their troubled years.

“I’ll make it up, every day of neglect. I promise you I will, darling.”

He hit her then sharply and carefully on the point of the chin. She uttered a brief, low cry and sagged back against the sofa.

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