Dr. Cyclops Page #4

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(SHUSHES)

They'll hear you.

This is the one you exposed at 10 feet.

Completely fogged.

Dr. Robinson, this ore contains

an unprecedented proportion of radium.

We'd better hurry.

Dr. Robinson and I have

reconsidered the situation,

and we've decided to remain here

to care for Dr. Thorkel.

You're important other places.

I think Bill and me ought to stay.

Oh, but we are better-equipped for the task.

And after all, he is a fellow scientist.

Why don't we quit trying

to double-cross each other?

What a pity you recognized the ore.

The same to you.

But I guess a few million bucks

split four ways ain't bad.

But it isn't just money to us.

We're thinking how important it

is to clinical and research laboratories.

Sure, with your names up over

the front door in big letters.

BULFINCH:
Quiet. Here comes Pedro.

I see no reason why we should conduct

ourselves like conspirators.

We have nothing to conceal.

We merely must decide

whether we shall permit a madman

to retain in his keeping something of

such consequence to humanity.

(WINDLASS CRANKING)

He's out there fiddling with the windlass.

Now's the time.

Pinto. He was here.

No horse is in here now.

He sure brought plenty of spare specs.

(EXCLAIMS)

His notebook.

(HORSE NEIGHS)

That is Pinto.

He's not here, Pedro.

That came from outside.

So...

Dr. Thorkel actually does believe he's

been able to reduce the size of a horse.

Bandits. Thieves.

What are you doing in my house?

You have no right even to be in my camp.

You are merely my employees,

whom I've discharged

and instructed to leave.

Now you break into my laboratory.

Get out! Get out instantly!

We're your friends, Doc.

We only want to help you.

I know what kind of friends you are.

I know what you want.

You've broken in here to learn

what I am doing

so that you can share

in the importance of my work.

But I will not permit it, and no one

can share, and I do not need help.

My notes!

Can't we lock him up somewhere?

I'm sorry.

I realize I have been hasty.

I've been working so hard

that perhaps I've lost sight

of the true values.

Will you forgive me,

my friends,

if, as a penance,

I explain to you

what it is that

I have been trying to achieve?

I give you my word.

l, for one, will take no dishonorable

advantage of your confidence.

Thank you.

All those who, in the past,

dug here for gold died

without knowing they had uncovered

something of far greater value.

A deposit of the richest

radium-bearing ore known to man.

I see you are already aware of that.

How much have you mined so far?

So far, I have extracted

nothing but the usefulness of the radium.

This tube is

my conducting channel.

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