Please step to that lever and turn it off.

I can stand no more at present." Bryce moved the lever, and the light upon the ground disappeared.

He approached the place where it had been; it was nothing but common earth.
He put his foot upon it; he stamped; it was as solid as any other part of the State.
"And yet I have looked down into it," he ejaculated, "at least half a dozen feet!" When Bryce turned and went back to Clewe, he too was pale.
"I do not wonder you fainted," said he.

"I do not believe it was what you saw that upset you; it was what you expected to see--wasn't that it ?" Clewe nodded in an indefinite way.

"We won't talk about it now," said he.