“Would it be?”
“To be sure, my lad. Sound’s just like light in that. It strikes against anything and goes off, they say, at the same angle, and then perhaps it’s only in one position that you can see it. Same here: there’s one part down below where we can catch this rumbling, hissing echo.”
“But you don’t call that finding water? What a horrible place! How are we to get at it?”
“Oh, easily enough,” said Griggs coolly. “You’ll have to go down with all the bottles and fill them.”
“What! Down there?”
“Yes. Shouldn’t you like the job?”
“Of course not.”
“Well, then, I must,” said Griggs, laughing.
“No, that wouldn’t be fair.”
“Never mind; we’ll argue that out afterwards,” said Griggs merrily. “Anyhow, we’ve found what we wanted.”