The Elixir of Youth (continued . . .)




You wanted to see me, Uncle ? Yes ! Janno and Mallo, I want you both to meet an old friend . . .
Eeeeeeeh ! In my younger days, Janno, I was some- thing of a wrestler ! And suddenly it all comes back to me ! Elekton’s top scientist—now much changed— grinned at his companions. But, you’re . . . you’re . . . Younger ! Between twenty and thirty lunar years younger ! With scarcely any grey hairs, all my teeth, and with the pulse and blood pressure of a man in his prime ! In the days and nights that followed, Peric and his assistant never left the Imperial Research Laboratory.

This installment was originally published in Look and Learn issue no. 646 on 1 June 1974.