Then he pulled the chair away from under her, and as the floor of the vessel once more turned towards Saturn, he took hold of her hands and brought her to her feet on deck again.
[Illustration: _Without any apparent effort he raised her about five feet from the floor._] "I ought to have had a photograph of you like that!" he laughed.

"I wonder what they'd think of it at home ?" "If you had taken one I should certainly have broken the negative.

The very idea--a photograph of me standing on nothing! Besides, they'd never believe it on Earth." "We might have got old Andrew to make an affidavit as to the true circumstances," he began.
"Don't talk nonsense, Lenox! Look! there's something much more interesting.

There's Saturn at last.

Now I wonder if we shall find any sort of life there--and shall we be able to breathe the air ?" "I hardly think so," he said, as the _Astronef_ dropped slowly through the thin cloud-veil.