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Doubt
has
been
thrown
upon
this
detail
,
but
I
am
almost
certain
it
was
helium
he
had
sent
him
in
sealed
stone
jars
.
It
was
certainly
something
very
gaseous
and
thin
.
If
only
I
had
taken
notes
...
But
then
,
how
was
I
to
foresee
the
necessity
of
taking
notes
?
Any
one
with
the
merest
germ
of
an
imagination
will
understand
the
extraordinary
possibilities
of
such
a
substance
,
and
will
sympathise
a
little
with
the
emotion
I
felt
as
this
understanding
emerged
from
the
haze
of
abstruse
phrases
in
which
Cavor
expressed
himself
.
Comic
relief
in
a
play
indeed
!
It
was
some
time
before
I
would
believe
that
I
had
interpreted
him
aright
,
and
I
was
very
careful
not
to
ask
questions
that
would
have
enabled
him
to
gauge
the
profundity
of
misunderstanding
into
which
he
dropped
his
daily
exposition
.
But
no
one
reading
the
story
of
it
here
will
sympathise
fully
,
because
from
my
barren
narrative
it
will
be
impossible
to
gather
the
strength
of
my
conviction
that
this
astonishing
substance
was
positively
going
to
be
made
.
I
do
not
recall
that
I
gave
my
play
an
hour
's
consecutive
work
at
any
time
after
my
visit
to
his
house
.
My
imagination
had
other
things
to
do
.
There
seemed
no
limit
to
the
possibilities
of
the
stuff
;
whichever
way
I
tried
I
came
on
miracles
and
revolutions
.
For
example
,
if
one
wanted
to
lift
a
weight
,
however
enormous
,
one
had
only
to
get
a
sheet
of
this
substance
beneath
it
,
and
one
might
lift
it
with
a
straw
.
My
first
natural
impulse
was
to
apply
this
principle
to
guns
and
ironclads
,
and
all
the
material
and
methods
of
war
,
and
from
that
to
shipping
,
locomotion
,
building
,
every
conceivable
form
of
human
industry
.
The
chance
that
had
brought
me
into
the
very
birth-chamber
of
this
new
time
--
it
was
an
epoch
,
no
less
--
was
one
of
those
chances
that
come
once
in
a
thousand
years
.
The
thing
unrolled
,
it
expanded
and
expanded
.
Among
other
things
I
saw
in
it
my
redemption
as
a
business
man
.
I
saw
a
parent
company
,
and
daughter
companies
,
applications
to
right
of
us
,
applications
to
left
,
rings
and
trusts
,
privileges
,
and
concessions
spreading
and
spreading
,
until
one
vast
,
stupendous
Cavorite
company
ran
and
ruled
the
world
.
And
I
was
in
it
!
I
took
my
line
straight
away
.
I
knew
I
was
staking
everything
,
but
I
jumped
there
and
then
.
"
We
're
on
absolutely
the
biggest
thing
that
has
ever
been
invented
,
"
I
said
,
and
put
the
accent
on
"
we
.
"
"
If
you
want
to
keep
me
out
of
this
,
you
'll
have
to
do
it
with
a
gun
.
I
'm
coming
down
to
be
your
fourth
labourer
to-morrow
.
"
He
seemed
surprised
at
my
enthusiasm
,
but
not
a
bit
suspicious
or
hostile
.
Rather
,
he
was
self-depreciatory
.
He
looked
at
me
doubtfully
.
"
But
do
you
really
think
--
?
"
he
said
.
"
And
your
play
!
How
about
that
play
?
"
"
It
's
vanished
!
"
I
cried
.
"
My
dear
sir
,
do
n't
you
see
what
you
've
got
?
Do
n't
you
see
what
you
're
going
to
do
?
"
