36xxxx 042 The Gas Is Released

Down in the secret chambers of the Magic Isle of Euchlydia, an important experiment is underway. G-47 has a formula which he believes to be Captain Bradford's Universal Solvent, and all of the Euchlydian scientists are gathered in the main chemical laboratory to see the formula completed, while down inside the island, on the same level with the laboratory, Jerry and Joan are completing their plans

with the help of the Euchlydian submarine commander who has been won over to the aid of the Gregory Party. They are in the sound channel. The only really noisy room on the island. Well, I guess we might as well go in the laboratory and get it over with.

Do you not think it is time to start now, Commander? It would not be advisable to arrive at the laboratory prematurely. If it is possible to plan its own, I think it best that you arrive just before the formula reaches completion.

Then the scientists will be so deeply interested in watching the compounding of it that they will ignore your presence. But they will have to know about presence, will they not? Sure, Joan. How about a commander?

We have agreed that I will take you into the laboratory as my prisoners, whom I have found spying in the secret chambers, right? Yeah, go ahead. If I arrive with you two just before the experiment is complete, G47 will merely order us to stand at one side and wait the result.

He will be too deeply engrossed in his work to do otherwise. That is right, Commander. But what if we arrived too early? G-47 would then have time to question me as to your activities in these chambers and would undoubtedly send me to deliver you as prisoners to the confinement chambers.