“Now,” said he, “you shall tell me what you think you have discovered, to make any ideas of your own available in the manufacture of a superior self-propelling air-ship.”
Sweetwater who had been so violently wheeled about in entering that he stood with his back to the curtain concealing the car, answered without hesitation.
“You have a device, entirely new so far as I can judge, by which this car can leap at once into space, hold its own in any direction, and alight again upon any given spot without shock to the machine or danger to the people controlling it.”
“Explain the device.”
“I will draw it.”
“You can?”
“As I see it.”
“As you see it!”
“Yes. It’s a brilliant idea; I could never have conceived it.”
“You believe—”