Editor's Note: The text contained within the following pages recently came into my possession through an unknown postal correspondent. I now present it as a warning to those in the modern age involved in the artificial manipulation of nature:
Doctor Edwin Crookshank's alarm clock startled him, as usual, at 6.30am, on Wednesday 14th May 1920. But today Crookshank would not be required to work. Or any other day, for the previous day he had been told the government programme he had been working on had been cancelled. Crookshank had never been sure what the exact purpose of his research had been. He and five other senior scientists had been experimenting on the composition of various metals. The project had been in operation for only two months and Crookshank had been suspicious from the start. Each of the confidants had been sworn to secrecy as to the nature of their work, and each had received handsome financial reimbursement. Crookshank had questioned the clandestine nature of the project, but was met only with silence from those in higher office. And now he wondered: why was he no longer required?
The scientist soon decided to make it his business to get to the bottom of the mystery. He should act quickly, he thought. He decided to call upon an old friend, who happened to be head of chemistry at sector 7G at the Ministry of Science. Crookshank had asked Doctor James White before if he was in possession of any information on project 'DVK', but he had always replied in the negative. But maybe he would notice activity if a project had recently been scrapped. Crookshank was never fully aware of the details of what went on that day, but by 9pm that evening Dr White was having tea in the younger man's living room presenting the unemployed scientist with several partly shredded documents stamped 'FOR IMMEDIATE INCINERATION' in heavy red ink.
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