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Immediately
the
train
of
thought
that
our
conversation
had
suggested
must
have
resumed
its
sway
.
His
arms
began
to
wave
in
their
former
fashion
.
The
faint
echo
of
"
zuzzoo
"
came
back
to
me
on
the
breeze
...
Well
,
after
all
,
that
was
not
my
affair
...
He
came
the
next
day
,
and
again
the
next
day
after
that
,
and
delivered
two
lectures
on
physics
to
our
mutual
satisfaction
.
He
talked
with
an
air
of
being
extremely
lucid
about
the
"
ether
"
and
"
tubes
of
force
,
"
and
"
gravitational
potential
,
"
and
things
like
that
,
and
I
sat
in
my
other
folding-chair
and
said
,
"
Yes
,
"
"
Go
on
,
"
"
I
follow
you
,
"
to
keep
him
going
.
It
was
tremendously
difficult
stuff
,
but
I
do
not
think
he
ever
suspected
how
much
I
did
not
understand
him
.
There
were
moments
when
I
doubted
whether
I
was
well
employed
,
but
at
any
rate
I
was
resting
from
that
confounded
play
.
Now
and
then
things
gleamed
on
me
clearly
for
a
space
,
only
to
vanish
just
when
I
thought
I
had
hold
of
them
.
Sometimes
my
attention
failed
altogether
,
and
I
would
give
it
up
and
sit
and
stare
at
him
,
wondering
whether
,
after
all
,
it
would
not
be
better
to
use
him
as
a
central
figure
in
a
good
farce
and
let
all
this
other
stuff
slide
.
And
then
,
perhaps
,
I
would
catch
on
again
for
a
bit
.
At
the
earliest
opportunity
I
went
to
see
his
house
.
It
was
large
and
carelessly
furnished
;
there
were
no
servants
other
than
his
three
assistants
,
and
his
dietary
and
private
life
were
characterised
by
a
philosophical
simplicity
.
He
was
a
water-drinker
,
a
vegetarian
,
and
all
those
logical
disciplinary
things
.
But
the
sight
of
his
equipment
settled
many
doubts
.
It
looked
like
business
from
cellar
to
attic
--
an
amazing
little
place
to
find
in
an
out-of-the-way
village
.
The
ground-floor
rooms
contained
benches
and
apparatus
,
the
bakehouse
and
scullery
boiler
had
developed
into
respectable
furnaces
,
dynamos
occupied
the
cellar
,
and
there
was
a
gasometer
in
the
garden
.
He
showed
it
to
me
with
all
the
confiding
zest
of
a
man
who
has
been
living
too
much
alone
.
His
seclusion
was
overflowing
now
in
an
excess
of
confidence
,
and
I
had
the
good
luck
to
be
the
recipient
.
The
three
assistants
were
creditable
specimens
of
the
class
of
"
handy-men
"
from
which
they
came
.
Conscientious
if
unintelligent
,
strong
,
civil
,
and
willing
.
One
,
Spargus
,
who
did
the
cooking
and
all
the
metal
work
,
had
been
a
sailor
;
a
second
,
Gibbs
,
was
a
joiner
;
and
the
third
was
an
ex-jobbing
gardener
,
and
now
general
assistant
.
They
were
the
merest
labourers
.
All
the
intelligent
work
was
done
by
Cavor
.
Theirs
was
the
darkest
ignorance
compared
even
with
my
muddled
impression
.
And
now
,
as
to
the
nature
of
these
inquiries
.
Here
,
unhappily
,
comes
a
grave
difficulty
.
I
am
no
scientific
expert
,
and
if
I
were
to
attempt
to
set
forth
in
the
highly
scientific
language
of
Mr.
Cavor
the
aim
to
which
his
experiments
tended
,
I
am
afraid
I
should
confuse
not
only
the
reader
but
myself
,
and
almost
certainly
I
should
make
some
blunder
that
would
bring
upon
me
the
mockery
of
every
up-to-date
student
of
mathematical
physics
in
the
country
.
The
best
thing
I
can
do
therefore
is
,
I
think
to
give
my
impressions
in
my
own
inexact
language
,
without
any
attempt
to
wear
a
garment
of
knowledge
to
which
I
have
no
claim
.
The
object
of
Mr.
Cavor
's
search
was
a
substance
that
should
be
"
opaque
"
--
he
used
some
other
word
I
have
forgotten
,
but
"
opaque
"
conveys
the
idea
--
to
"
all
forms
of
radiant
energy
.
"
"
Radiant
energy
,
"
he
made
me
understand
,
was
anything
like
light
or
heat
,
or
those
Rontgen
Rays
there
was
so
much
talk
about
a
year
or
so
ago
,
or
the
electric
waves
of
Marconi
,
or
gravitation
.
All
these
things
,
he
said
,
radiate
out
from
centres
,
and
act
on
bodies
at
a
distance
,
whence
comes
the
term
"
radiant
energy
.
"
Now
almost
all
substances
are
opaque
to
some
form
or
other
of
radiant
energy
.
Glass
,
for
example
,
is
transparent
to
light
,
but
much
less
so
to
heat
,
so
that
it
is
useful
as
a
fire-screen
;
and
alum
is
transparent
to
light
,
but
blocks
heat
completely
.
A
solution
of
iodine
in
carbon
bisulphide
,
on
the
other
hand
,
completely
blocks
light
,
but
is
quite
transparent
to
heat
.
It
will
hide
a
fire
from
you
,
but
permit
all
its
warmth
to
reach
you
.
Metals
are
not
only
opaque
to
light
and
heat
,
but
also
to
electrical
energy
,
which
passes
through
both
iodine
solution
and
glass
almost
as
though
they
were
not
interposed
.
And
so
on
.
Now
all
known
substances
are
"
transparent
"
to
gravitation
.
You
can
use
screens
of
various
sorts
to
cut
off
the
light
or
heat
,
or
electrical
influence
of
the
sun
,
or
the
warmth
of
the
earth
from
anything
;
you
can
screen
things
by
sheets
of
metal
from
Marconi
's
rays
,
but
nothing
will
cut
off
the
gravitational
attraction
of
the
sun
or
the
gravitational
attraction
of
the
earth
.
Yet
why
there
should
be
nothing
is
hard
to
say
.
Cavor
did
not
see
why
such
a
substance
should
not
exist
,
and
certainly
I
could
not
tell
him
.
I
had
never
thought
of
such
a
possibility
before
.
He
showed
me
by
calculations
on
paper
,
which
Lord
Kelvin
,
no
doubt
,
or
Professor
Lodge
,
or
Professor
Karl
Pearson
,
or
any
of
those
great
scientific
people
might
have
understood
,
but
which
simply
reduced
me
to
a
hopeless
muddle
,
that
not
only
was
such
a
substance
possible
,
but
that
it
must
satisfy
certain
conditions
.
It
was
an
amazing
piece
of
reasoning
.
Much
as
it
amazed
and
exercised
me
at
the
time
,
it
would
be
impossible
to
reproduce
it
here
.
"
Yes
,
"
I
said
to
it
all
,
"
yes
;
go
on
!
"
Suffice
it
for
this
story
that
he
believed
he
might
be
able
to
manufacture
this
possible
substance
opaque
to
gravitation
out
of
a
complicated
alloy
of
metals
and
something
new
--
a
new
element
,
I
fancy
--
called
,
I
believe
,
helium
,
which
was
sent
to
him
from
London
in
sealed
stone
jars
.
