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Thinking to make amends I went one evening to the doctor's apartment. "I was going out shortly," said Zimmern, as he greeted me. "I have a dinner engagement with Hellar on the Free Level. But I still have a little time; if it pleases you we might walk along to our library."
You are going back to your own people you will not save Germany at all you will never come back for me!" "You are very wrong," I said gently. "It is because I have known you and known such men as Dr. Zimmern and Col. Hellar that I do want to carry the message that will for ever end this sunless life of your imprisoned race."
"But I am glad," concluded Hellar as he arose, "that I do not believe Gutenberg's Bible either, for I should very much dislike to think of meeting him in Paradise." After taking leave of my companions I walked on alone, oblivious to the gay throng, for I had many things on which to ponder. In these two men I felt that I had found heroic figures.
In our new order we have had difficulty in maintaining enough of it for scientific purposes even in the intellectual classes. There is no scepticism among the labourers now, I assure you. They believe as easily as they breathe." "Then how," I demanded in amazement, "does it come that they do not believe in God?" "Because," said Hellar, "they have never heard of God.
You and I, Hellar, are mere cogs; if we break others can take our places, but Armstadt has power. What he knows no one else knows. He has power. We have only weakness because others can take our place. And because he has power let us help him find a way." "It seems to me," I said, "that the way must be by education. More men must think as we do."
When they have seen and heard the speeches, the labourers vote, and then go back to their work and are very happy." "But suppose they should sometime fail to re-elect him?" "No danger," said Hellar; "there is only one name on the ballot and the ballots are dumped into the paper mill without inspection." "Most extraordinary," I exclaimed.
"I am sorry you cannot remain and meet Marguerite tonight," he said as I stepped toward the door. "But tomorrow evening I will arrange for you to meet Colonel Hellar of the Information Staff, and Marguerite can be with us then. You may go directly to my booth in the cafe where you last dined with me." After a brief walk I came to Bertha's apartment, and nervously pressed the bell.
"Most ordinary," contradicted Hellar; "it is not even an exclusively German institution; we have merely perfected it. Voting everywhere is a very useful device in organized government. In the cruder form used in democracies there were two or more candidates.
These belated explanations of the fundamental ideas of German society quite confused and confounded me, though Hellar seemed in no wise surprised at my ignorance, since as a chemist I had originally been supposed to know only of atoms and valences and such like matters.
Unless this was told you at the time you were assigned the work it is not to be expected that you would know." I questioned Hellar and Zimmern closely but found that all they knew was that a submarine tunnel did exist leading from Berlin somewhere into the open sea; but its exact location they did not know.