Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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SILENCE IS—DEADLY By Bertrand L. Shurtleff Radio is an absolute necessity in modern organization—and particularly in modern naval organization. If you could silence all radio—silence of that sort would be deadly! [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science-Fiction April 1942. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] The hurried fire— way—like a man in an external state of jitters over nothing at all. entire The wizened face of the older man was molded in intent lines of With the coming of dawn, a little exploration revealed that the was also missing! concentration, as his bushy gray head bent over his drawing board. that they had been put ashore without food or extra clothing or Another had found the remains of tents and log cabins, recently demolished, in a small, timbered hollow—a well-hidden spot invisible from the air, unless one were flying very low a place where two whose mind had been turned by the horror that had come to his country . At other times, the man seemed a genius. Perhaps that was the answer—a mad genius! if this might have been the source of Androka's zone of silence, when like a stinging wet lash. Overhead, the sky was a storm-racked mass of over his pale eyes his thin face a mass of tense lines fumbling at the neck of his slicker. Rain was coursing down his white his taut face, restless, searching eyes, and eternally nervous manner hard on his latest invention to pull Hitler's teeth and re-establish of good-natured joking aboard the Comerford This storm—" Don't let a little error get you down!" "But this storm, sir!" Nelson avoided Curtis' friendly eyes and slipped out from under his arm. "It's got me worried. Quartering wind of undetermined force, variable and gusty. There's a chop to the sea—as if from unestimated currents among the islets. No chance to check by observation, and now there is a chance—look at me!" "As if by providence, sir, there's a clear patch. I'm wondering—" His underlined heavily. "Here's what I make it," the commander told his navigating officer. "Bet you're not off appreciably." to move in these waters with such a possibility of error!" Androka decrees silence over the German airways! Try it! Try it, I say!" sharply, for the operator seemed in a daze. me about five minutes ago. I was taking the weather report when the set that had recently been established to insure safety to naval vessels, but there was no answer on any of the bands—not even the blare of a high-powered commercial program in the higher reach, nor the chatter of ships or amateurs on the shorter. gentlemen! The set is uninjured. The waves are what have been upset. I can enter or leave my zone of radio silence—of refracted radio waves, set up by my little station on one of the neighboring islets!" Curtis was the first to speak. "Your secrecy might well cost the United States navy one of its best light cruisers—and us our lives!" he said angrily. "We need that check by radio at once! If you're not talking nonsense, call off your dogs till we learn just where we are!" Androka held out his palms helplessly. "I can do nothing. I have given orders to my assistant that he must keep two hours of radio silence! I disappointment that messages had penetrated his veil of silence, they points. Light intersecting lines proclaimed a check on their position. must be right. Continue as you were!" closed. The sky was again a blanket of darkness pouring sheets of rain wires were alive to the touch and set him to shaking his head at the tingle they sent through his inquiring fingers. air pausing every now and then to run his bony fingers through his tangled mop of gray hair, or to claw nervously at his beard. My miracle! My invention has shattered the ether waves hereabouts hopelessly." "Seems to me," Curtis said dryly, "this invention can harm your friends are other inventions to supplement this one. Put them together, and they will defeat the Nazi hordes which have ravaged my country!" eyes, under their bushy brows. There was something of the wild animal in the man's expression, as his lips drew back from his yellowed teeth. on his slicker as he went. The shout from the watch forward had been picked up, and was being relayed all over the ship. The words struck on Curtis' ears with a note of impending tragedy. "Breakers ahead!" helmsman climbing the rapidly spinning wheel like a monkey as he put it Then the ship struck. Everything movable shot ahead until it brought up at the end of a swing or smacked against something solid. I'm afraid we're gored!" keep her up!" And then he became aware of a deadly stillness. A vast wall of silence enveloped the entire cruiser. Looking over the side, he could no longer see the waves that a few minutes before had beaten savagely against the The Comerford was shrouded in a huge pall of yellowish-gray mist, and themselves struck numb and helpless by a gas that had been flooded into under the foundations, while others laid the induction of the gas to Fifth Column traitors. There were a hundred more or less plausible explanations— The vapor clouds that enveloped the Comerford were becoming thicker. shroud of mist and steadied it, so that the cruiser would not be completely at the mercy of the wind and the waves. was completely walled in by the yellowish-gray mist. He felt his senses Voices droned all around him in mumbling confusion—guttural voices that ebbed and flowed in a tide of excited talk. He caught a word of English now and then, mixed in with a flood of Teuton phonetics. Two words, in particular, registered clearly on his mind. One was the other was "convoy." But gradually his eardrums began to throb, as if someone were pounding on them from the inside. He a cloud seemed to be mounting within him until The rain had abated to a foggy drizzle. The wash of the surf swung the everything up inside half an hour." "He's nothing but a crackpot!" while the efficient stretcher-bearers worked industriously to remove That zone of silence cut us off completely." a time explaining it!" "Hereafter," Brandt said solemnly, "the zone of silence vill be projected from the "The "What's the idea?" low." Brazil—through the blockade," Nelson said, "without taking the risk of is taking over." in his voice. "The misfires, if there is the slightest suspicion of treachery on his part, his daughter and the others will suffer. Androka's loyalty is assured!" that portholes were being opened, and men were spraying chemical around to rid the below-decks atmosphere of the lethal gas that had overcome the considerably, and that the cruiser was riding more easily at her anchor. rain—now a light, driving mist—beating on his face. He was chilled his limbs were stiff and numb. His nose and throat felt parched inside, as if a wave of searing heat had scorched them. According to his last calculations, the Comerford at the heartfelt concern in his friendly brown eyes. The young The words struck Curtis with the numbing shock of a blow on some nerve center. For the first time, he realized fully the tragedy that had which smelled strongly of treachery and sabotage. As he thought back, he realized that he might had been deliberately steered to this place that the men who had seized her had been waiting here for that very purpose. The pieces of the picture fitted together like a jigsaw puzzle—Androka's zone of silence the bearings given by radio Navigating Officer Nelson's queer conduct. They were all part of a carefully laid plan!

<question>:
What do the harsh weather conditions described at the beginning of the article foreshadow about the tone of the rest of the reading?

<options>:
A The article will be stressful.
B The article will be uneventful.
C The article will be gloomy.
D The article will be mysterious

<answer>:

A