He had done all that he wanted to do, he had shown all that he cared to show; now he would let other people investigate his facts and his reasonings and argue about them; he would retire--he had done enough.
Professor Tippengray was one of the most enthusiastic defenders of Clewe's theories, and wrote a great deal on the subject.
"Granted," she said, in one of her articles, "that the carboniferous minerals, of which the diamond is one, are derived from vegetable matter, and that wood and plants must have existed before the diamond, where, may I ask, did the prediamond-forests derive their carbon?
In what form did it exist before they came into being ?" In another essay she said: "Half a century ago it was discovered that a man could talk through a thousand miles of wire, and yet now we doubt that a man can descend through fourteen miles of rock." As to the Artesian ray itself, there could be no doubt whatever, for when Clewe, in one of his experiments, directed it horizontally through a small mountain and objects could be plainly discerned upon the other side, discussions in regard to the genuineness of the action of the photic borer were useless.
In medicine, as well as surgery, the value of the Artesian ray was speedily admitted by the civilized world.

To eliminate everything between the eye of the surgeon and the affected portion of a human organism was like the rising of the sun upon a hitherto benighted region.
In the winter, Margaret Raleigh and Roland Clewe were married.

They travelled; they lived and loved in pleasant places; and they returned the next year rich in new ideas and old art trophies.

They bought a fine estate, and furnished it and improved it as an artist paints a picture, without a thought of the cost of the colors he puts upon it.

They were rich enough to have everything they cared to wish for.