36xxxx 045 Escape Attempt Tonight

On Euclidea, the magic island of the South Seas, events are moving very rapidly. Johnson's boat has arrived and been captured. Jerry and Joan have been in the chemical laboratory, and watched the exploding gas from Captain Bradford's trick formula put the Euclidean scientists, including G-47, to sleep.

Now Jerry and Joan are back on Mrs. Gregory's yacht, where it is lashed to Johnson's boat. Jerry is running a little portable power saw on the deck of the yacht to cover up the noise of the pumps transferring oil to Johnson's boat for the escape attempt.

Joan is with her mother in the radio cabin. J-24Y to Wilmington. Patricia Gregory to the Gregory relay station. Hello Wilmington. J-24Y to Wilmington. Hello. Hello. I can't understand, Mother dear. Why they do not answer you.

I understand it, Joan, and I don't expect them to answer me. Why not, Mother? For one reason they can't possibly hear me. We're 4,000 miles from the California coast. And with our broken aerial and this set not working properly, We're lucky if we can be heard 400 miles, let alone 4,000.

Then how does it help us, Annie, to keep calling? And your messages sound so strange. I do not understand much of your plan, I think. Well, I haven't much of a plan, dear. What I'm trying to do is keep the Euclidians and the radio chambers busy worrying about these messages.

As long as they think our position is hopeless here and that we're frantically calling for help, they won't suspect how nearly ready we are to try and escape. But what about Mr. Johnson? Will he be hearing these messages and acting on them to help you?