I said, 'It will not return for three hours.

While it is away, why shall I not into its home go through the door it has left open ?' So I went--even to here.

I looked at the pillars of light and I tested the liquid of the Pool on which they fell.

That liquid, Dr.Goodwin, is not water, and it is not any fluid known on earth." He handed me a small vial, its neck held in a long thong.
"Take this," he said, "and see." Wonderingly, I took the bottle; dipped it down into the Pool.

The liquid was extraordinarily light; seemed, in fact, to give the vial buoyancy.