A Whispered Conversation
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 49884
| "Let me explain," Bond continues, keeping his voice low so that (he
assumes) the others can't overhear, and his back to them so that they
can't lip-read. "Professor Selwyn Cavor is in charge of England's proposed
lunar expedition, which is scheduled for two years' time, as part of the
celebrations to mark the dawn of the twentieth century. But now the
Cavorite that he developed, which nullifies the effects of gravity and
thus will permit a vessel to leave the Earth for the Moon, has been
stolen. Though the Professor says that he can produce more, he cannot do
so by as early as 1900. It is a very long and laborious process."
"Goodness!" Mina says. "A lunar expedition! That hardly seems credible. I can see that it would be a great blow to British prestige if it had to be cancelled." "Since only a few people know about it as yet, that is not M's main concern. Rather it is that the stealer of the Cavorite might be intending to use it to create flying vehicles from which he could subject England to an aerial bombardment, and thus be able to hold the nation to ransom." "Do you know who has the Cavorite?" "We do, though we do not know his true name. He is an oriental warlord who has only recently arrived in this country, but who has already established himself as the criminal overlord of London's East End. As I said, your group's job is to recover the Cavorite from wherever he has stored it." "If the newcomers will aid us, is there sufficient Cavorite that a little could be spared for them once we have recovered it?"
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