Rumors of Marty Goode

Imagine a story, whispered at a cocktail party near midnight and given with greatest assurances, about a man who could not die-rumors of someone of consequence, passing through the centuries devoted, discreet and unscathed. Would you dismiss it? Or would you want to know more? And if it were possible, and if you could find the nerve, would you go looking? And when you found him, what might be waiting?