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This source they had found in the uninhabited islands of the Arctic, where the formation of the Ural Mountains extends beneath the sea. Sending their submarines thence in search of platinum ores they had not found platinum but a limited supply of ore containing the even more valuable protium. By this traffic Germany had survived for a century and a half.
The voice was speaking monotonously and the words I heard were the words of the protium formulas, the false ones I had given the Chemical Staff. "But these formulas are not correct," purred the voice, "of course, they are not correct. I gave them to the Staff, but they will never know the real ones Yes, the real ones What are the real ones? Have I forgotten ? No, I shall never forget.
The first rumour of the strike of the labourers in the Protium Works had come to me from the Listening-in-Service. Since Berlin was too complicated and congested a spot for wireless communication to be practical, the electrical conduct of sound was by antiquated means of metal wires.
"We had supposed you would have been told when you were assigned to the protium research." By way of answer I explained that I knew the source of the ore but not the route of its coming. "All such knowledge is suppressed in books," commented Hellar; "we older men know of this by word of mouth from the days when the submarine tunnel was completed to the sea, but you are younger.
My optimism was based on the discovery that the exact chemical state of the protium in the ore was unknown, and that it did not exist equally in all samples of the ore.
But I wanted power; and, with the secret of protium extraction in my possession, I would have control of life or death over three hundred million men. Why should I sacrifice such power for useless credit and empty honour?
"Do you know," he said, "I should like to see a negro, a black man with kinky hair it must be queer." "Yes," I answered, "there must be many queer things out there." When I told Dr. Zimmern that I should solve the problem of the increase of the supply of protium I may have been guilty of speaking of hopes as if they were certainties.
There was little time to spare from my duties in the Protium Works, but my secretary, ever alert, snatched upon the odd moments to coach me in matters of social etiquette and so prepared me to make my first appearance in Royal Society at the grand ball given by the Countess Luise in honour of Marguerite's debut.
In this labour Zimmern and Hellar could be of no service and I therefore took my leave of them, lest I should not see them again. "Within a year at most," I said, "we may meet again, for Berlin will be open to the world. Once the passage is revealed and the protium traffic stopped, the food stores cannot last longer.
"Not at all; on the contrary, it is a master stroke of science and efficiency inferior creatures must worship; they always have and always will then why waste the worship?" My position as director of the protium works soon brought me into conference with Admiral von Kufner who was Chief of the Submarine Staff.
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