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Therefore Senior Officer Werner, of the Colonial Survey, received his / instructions from Sandringham. Hardwick never knew the details of the / instructions Werner got. They were possibly persuasive, or they may / have been menacing. But Werner ceased to argue for the movement of any / fraction of the island's population to the arctic ice cap, and instead / made frequent eloquent addresses to the planetary population on the / scientific means by which their lives were to be saved. Between the / addresses, perhaps, he sweated cold sweat when a tree sedately tilted / in what had seemed solid soil, or a building settled perceptibly while / he looked at it, or when. say. a section of the island's soil / bulged upward.
Publicly, he headed citizens' committees, and grandly gave / instructions, and spoke in unintelligible and, therefore, extremely / scientific terms when desperately earnest men asked for explanations. / But he was perfectly clear in what he wanted them to do.