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Of course, all our work of a fixed character has appliances with the
power permanently attached, and these portable reservoirs are carried
about with us only for detached and unexpected tasks."
To my experienced eye the doctor's face looked a little skeptical at this
last remark, and he said:
"But how can the power be applied in these emergencies? Suppose, for
example, it were necessary for you to go from here to the other end of
this vessel in half a second, how would the electricity in your box help
you do it?"
"If I really thought, Doctor, you wanted to be rid of me I would be
tempted to try it; but, as I told your companion just now, you had better
learn all you can of our history before you begin to see what we can do.
"I haven't told you half of the wonders performed by this marvelous power.
It has long been our chief reliance for rapid traveling. You find us in
this ship; but, although navigation is a perfected science, this mode of
traveling is tedious, and ships are used only for pleasure and such out-
of-the-way trips as this.


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