COMMANDER
Pausing.
What has happened there, Kloetz?
ENGINEER
They don't respond to our calls, your Highness. They are silent like the dead. Something has happened there.
COMMANDER
You think something serious has happened?
ENGINEER
I dare not think so, your Highness, but I am alarmed. Silence is the only answer to our most energetic calls. But Greitzer wishes to say something. ... Well? What is it, Greitzer?
The second telegraphist has entered quietly.