It was a creature of nightmare, with four arms and four
legs, and this one actually moved. With a peculiar motion it crawled
along the bottom of the great receptacle in which it was kept, towards
the three persons who looked at it. It seemed to wonder what they did.
Susie started back with fright, as it raised itself on its four legs and
tried to reach up to them.
Susie turned away and hid her face. She could not look at those ghastly
counterfeits of humanity. She was terrified and ashamed.
'Do you understand what this means?' said Dr Porhoet to Arthur, in an
awed voice. 'It means that he has discovered the secret of life.'
'Was it for these vile monstrosities that Margaret was sacrificed in all
her loveliness?'
The two men looked at one another with sad, wondering eyes.
'Don't you remember that he talked of the manufacture of human beings?
It's these misshapen things that he's succeeding in producing,' said the
doctor.
'There is one more that we haven't seen,' said Arthur.
He pointed to the covering which still hid the largest of the vases.
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