Some thought he was dangerous.Some thought he was dangerous. others thought his mind had snapped, but no one really guessed the truth, and as he was stationed in International waters and nothing that he had ordered delivered to the island was considered to be any real kind of threat to anyone, people left the man that some called 'Old Looney' pretty much alone, if for no other reason than the heavily-fortified fortress-like aspect of the place that he had set up to keep people away from whatever he was doing. Oh, there were times that he radioed to the mainland for hired help to do construction work and other things that he was unable to do himself, but even they were allowed access to only a small part of his compound, and as soon as the work was done, he sent them back, their pay sent directly into their account back home from his Swiss bank. The people who worked for him did say that, although extremely odd and fiercely protective of most buildings on his island, he did seem to be a nice old man, and no one ever said that he was not generous when it came time to pay them, so no one really minded doing work for him. Anyway, one day after the turn of the new century, All of the radio links that Prof.Russell used to occasionally keep in touch with the mainland suddenly began beaming out a strong S.O.S. on many frequencies, interfering with normal radio communication. |