6: Lakshadweep or Bust
In reply to Grimsby Baskerville (msg # 45):
"Dammit!" Dash spits out angrily--then sheepishly looks up at the group, "Oh, I apologize for the language, Ladies. It's just that, in the Black Zep Captain's papers I brought back, it said their next stop was the tiny island nation of Lakshadweep, in the Indian Ocean, south of the Indian Sub-Continent--and Bellgrove ..." Dash gestures towards his fellow American.
"Bellgrove brought to my attention that Lakshadweep was known for the submersibles which make up it's defensive fleet. Now, maybe I've been trying to out-think these Vril rascals for too long, but when Bellgrove mentioned submersibles, I had this sudden thought of the Vril trying to plate one with the gravity-defying cavorite-or-whatever, and I realized that they would then have a ready made aerial ironclad at their disposal."
"I don't know for sure that this is their plot, but since they have separated Professor Cavor from the ore they took when they kidnapped him--and the Professor says he heard them talking about the ore going to a different location than he was--I assume from that that they have the knowledge of how to correctly process the ore for the ... the wonderflonium it contains. So we are then presented with the question--if they didn't need the Professor to process the ore, then why was he being taken to Lakshadweep?"
"Were they going to try and coerce him to use his knowledge to work the wonderflonium for them? Were they going to trade him and his knowledge to someone in Lakshadweep in exchange for something? Maybe a submersible?"
"So never mind the question, should we take Professor Cavor to Lakshadweep, better we ask ourselves, should we go to Lakshadweep or should we try to recover the cavorite ore? We have the Professor, if we recover the ore, we can head back to Scotland, having both foiled several Vril plots as well as accomplishing the mission we promised to perform for Lord Kentigern."