“Do you call it nothing because it is bright?”
“Well, no,” I replied, laughing. “What I mean is that I see nothing that I can make anything of except a shining object, and all I can make of that is that it is bright.”
“You’ve been in the Syx works many times, haven’t you?”
“Yes.”
“Did you ever see the opening in the roof?”
“Never.”
“Did you ever hear of it?”
“Never.”
“Then Dr. Syx doesn’t show his visitors everything that is to be seen.”
“Evidently not since, as we know, he concealed the double tunnel and the room under the furnace.”