I want to go on talking about it, but I shall not do it; we must keep our minds tied down to some present purpose.

Now, Mr.Clewe, what is there that we can take up and carry on immediately?
Can it be the great shell ?" Clewe shook his head.
"No," said he; "that is progressing admirably, but many things are necessary before we can experiment with it." "Since you were away," said she, "I have often been down to the works to look at it, but everything about it seems to go so slowly.

However, I suppose it will go fast enough when it is finished." "Yes," said he.

"I hope it will go fast enough to overturn the artillery of the world; but, as you say, don't let us talk about the things for which we must wait.

I will carefully consider everything that is in operation, and to-morrow I will suggest something with which we can go on." "After all," said she, as they stood together before parting, "I cannot take my mind from the Artesian ray." "Nor can I," he answered; "but for the present we must put our hands to work at something else." The Artesian ray, of which these two spoke, was an invention upon which Roland Clewe had been experimenting for a long time, and which was and had been the object of his labors and studies while in Europe.