The Fountain of Youth Page #3

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let me say that word again,

controls, the aging

of the tissue.

Girls, just imagine what that means!

And now we shall go from the

world of science to show business.

A little bird tells me that

Caroline and Allan Brody

are due back any day now.

The ideal couple very soon dopped

around Humphrey's laboratory.

- Darling!- cried the bride

You've become famous, what's

all this about eternal youth?

Humphrey told her she could

have no interest in that.

- Why, you looked eighteen

when I met you- he said.

And you were twenty three.

Now you're twenty six.

Twenty seven, twenty

seven last week.

- Don't she still looks

eighteen- said Humphrey

- Well- said Brody

I can't say I've noticed

myself slowing up any but

some of these youngsters

from the west coast.

And he shook his head with the

melancholy always induced in

tennis players by the

mention of the west coast.

You won't be young

always of course.

But then you hardly wanna be.

Those, people you

see around never

seem to mature.

They belong to a particular

frigid narcissistic type.

What kind of type?

Narcissistic, from Narcissus.

It means they are in

love with themselves.

They can't love anybody

else so that's why they,

never seem to get Anny older.

Yes...

Yes, but what about the

stuff you discovered?

Oh, that.

- It's not true then? -I told you

it was all a lot of hooey.

Listen.

I'm going to tell you something no

one in the world must know about.

Do you understand that Brody?

- You can rely on me.

- Very well

Oh! A little kitten cat.

Isn't it sweet?

But what's the kitten got

to do with your experiment?

The kitten had a

birthday last week.

It was five years old.

Ah!

It's a dwarf or, or

midget or something.

It's as normal as every

kitten you saw in your life.

- What will happen to it?

- Will it go on forever?

Will it, will it go on a bang or

crumble into dust or something?

Almost surely heart failure.

But only after sixty

years of glorious youth.

That's two hundred for a human being.

I went to Vienna exactly three

years and four months ago.

So, you see

the kitten part is

Bingleburg's discovery.

But they said in the papers

it was human beings.

I was helping him adapting

two human beings.

And, you succeeded Mr. Baxter?

Humphrey.

Alright, Humphrey, when

will the stuff be ready?

In thirty years or so.

It's a question of finding a

new source for the extract.

To get this stuff we had to perform

an extremely delicate operation.

Which unfortunately is fatal

to the animal we get it from.

- So, you see it...

- What?

Animal?

It's quite a common one. Man.

Urgh.

Another source would

take years even test!

That's why I swore you the secrecy.

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