ray."

"It seems to me," said she, "that if we could have discovered a
good while ago some sort of ray by which we could see into each
other's souls, we should have gained a great many hours which are
now lost."

"Not at all," replied Clewe; "they are not lost. In our
philosophy, nothing is lost. All the joys we have missed in days
that are past shall be crowded into the days that are to come."




CHAPTER IX

THE ARTESIAN RAY


In less than a week after the engagement of Roland Clewe and
Margaret Raleigh work on the great machine which was to generate
the Artesian ray had so far progressed that it was possible to
make some preliminary experiments with it. Although Clewe was
sorry to think of the very undesirable companion which Samuel
Block had carried with him into the polar regions, he could not
but feel a certain satisfaction when he reflected that there was
now no danger of Rovinski gaining any knowledge of the momentous
operations which he had in hand in Sardis. He had had frequent
telegrams from Sammy, but no trouble of any kind had yet arisen.
It was true that the time for trouble, if there were to be any,