The morning telecast had told of more deaths, some natural but most of them suicides. It wasn't news calculated to set at rest the human spirit; but then, since the day disaster had struck, there had been no such thing as a peaceful mind. It was so easy to remember how it all began, Steve Rushton was thinking, as he suffered the indignity of the routine search. The trick was in trying to forget. You rationalized your fears and anxieties; you slammed the door against an impossible enemy and then