36xxxx 049 Ready To Throw Switches

When Captain Bradford decided to attempt to escape with the rescue boat which Johnson sailed to within a few miles of the Magic Island, Mrs. Gregory and the Captain planned to send a code message to Johnson and have him standing by to help them when their fuel ran out.

However, it was discovered that even though the Captain's formula put all the chemists to sleep in the laboratory, the other Euclidians are very careful in their watch over the island, and the radio message can't be sent from the boat.

Jerry and Joan take a desperate chance in going down into the lower levels of the island, And in trying to escape from one of the Uphidian guards, they are climbing down the inside of an elevator shaft, when the elevator starts down after them.

That car has passed the fourth floor. Can't you get this door on the sixth floor open? No, we must just go down as fast as we can and hope the elevator does not catch us.

Come on, men. Hurry up. I am hurrying, Jerry, but that car sounds very near. Well, if we have to, we'll yell and give ourselves away. It would do no good. The inside of the car is so noisy, we could not be heard.

Hey Joan, the elevator's stopped. The guard is leaving the elevator on the fifth level. He's gone now. Well, I guess he decided we were on the same level with the laboratory. That does not seem right, Jerry.

The guard would know we could not be on that level. There is something else happening. What was that for? That was a general alarm for the laboratory on the fifth level. Well, let's do something about it.