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was dazzled by that gleam of light above, and I could see only a
bottomless darkness with spectral patches of crimson and purple floating
therein. Yet if I could not see, I could hear. Out of this darkness came a
sound, a sound like the angry hum one can hear if one puts one's ear
outside a hive of bees, a sound out of that enormous hollow, it may be,
four miles beneath our feet...
For a moment I listened, then tightened my grip on my crowbar, and led the
way up the gallery.
"
This must be the shaft we looked down upon," said Cavor. "Under that
lid."
"
"
And below there, is where we saw the lights."
The lights!" said he. "Yes--the lights of the world that now we shall
never see."
"
We'll come back," I said, for now we had escaped so much I was rashly
sanguine that we should recover the sphere.
His answer I did not catch.
"
"
Eh?" I asked.
It doesn't matter," he answered, and we hurried on in silence.
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