electricity are well defined, and its mighty power is under perfect
control. Nothing is left to chance, and the result is that there have been
no accidents for many, many years, and practically speaking there cannot
be any."

When we first entered the coach we noticed that there were no windows, and
as the doors had no glass we wondered why it was not dark. The light was
good broad daylight, exactly like that which fills a room when there are
good windows, but where the direct rays of the sun do not enter; and, as
we could see no lamps nor fixtures, we could not understand how the
illumination could be artificial. But such it was. We carried an electric
battery with us, and the lamps were out of sight, and so arranged that
they gave us only reflected light. The system was so perfect that the
imitation sunlight was just as good as the real, as far as we could
discover.

"This is the way we light all our interiors," said Thorwald, "and of
course the apparatus is so governed that we can have any amount of
illumination we please, little or much."

The doctor was about to ask some question in relation to this practical
improvement, when he was stopped by hearing a little silver-toned bell
ring. In an instant the doors opened, and Thorwald rose and announced that
we had reached the end of our journey. We could not have been in the car
more than fifteen minutes, and the doctor and I supposed our ride of two
hundred miles had just begun.

"Well, if you travel at this rate," said the doctor, "I do not wonder you
have obliterated all national boundaries, for the ends of the world are
right at your doors. And now, Thorwald, I would like to see the great tube