_They walked the streets of the same city, but they were separated by the ages. She feared the man she loved even as her arms clasped him to her. For when science presented Frank Ridley with the gift of neverending life it made him desperately unhappy, and placed him in a world peopled by brief and flitting shadows...._ After a year in the hospital, they gave Frank Ridley a new suit of clothes and a topcoat and told him he could go. Dr. Lord said they would call him when they wanted him, so Ridley put on the topcoat and walked through the doors and down the wide steps into the windy, sunlit morning.…
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