36xxxx 025 Battleship Approach

On the magic island of the South Seas, time is very precious. The mad scientists who call themselves Euclidians measure time in seconds because they are too busy to use minutes. When Mrs. Gregory, Captain Bradford and Jerry Hall landed the Gregory yacht at the island and found Mrs. Gregory's long lost little daughter Joan,

they thought the idea of putting such value on time was ridiculous. Now time has become very precious to those on board the captive Gregory yacht. It is just after eight o'clock at night. Captain takes Bradford has been gone fifteen minutes.

minutes, trying to swim out through the ring of fog and gas surrounding the island, and release one of the little homing pigeons on which so much depends. A sudden electrical storm sweeps over the weird island, as Mrs. Gregory, Jerry and Joan huddle in the radio cabin on the yacht.

The terrible storm, Mother. Are you not glad your boat is safely moored to the pier here now? This storm wouldn't hurt the boat, Joan. We came through a couple of them on the way down here.

we hardly noticed such a storm as all the quarters of soundproof, but on this boat it seems very terrifying. You will learn to love the natural things, John Deere, things that are really terrible in a natural way if we ever get off this horrible island. Well, I'm going back to the engineers course and wait for text

there. I'll let you know the minute there's any news. You will be careful when you're not, Jerry. I would not like anything to happen to you. Hear that, Mrs. Gregory? Jones getting kind of stuck on me.