He went into his office and sent for Margaret.

When she came he showed her the photographs.
"See!" he said.

"What I have found is nothing; even a camera shows nothing, and when I look down through the glass I see nothing.

It is just what the Artesian ray showed me; it is nothing at all!" "I should think," said she, speaking very slowly, "that if your sounding-lead had gone down into nothing, it would have continued to go down indefinitely.

What was there to stop it if there is nothing there ?" "Margaret," said he, "I don't know anything about it.