16/28 Their plan is to control the new movement in India, and their strength consists in secrecy. They will take all precautions." "Do you mean to tell me," I demanded, "that as you sit here now you are impotent? Can your Western scientists perform to order without their right environment and preparations ?" "Then you can't break that door down, or turn loose any magnetic force ?" "You speak like a superstitious fool," he retorted calmly. "The answer is no." "That," said I, "is all that I was driving at. Do you see this ?" And I held my right fist sufficiently close to his nose to call urgent attention to it. |