162 THE CHANNEL AT NIGHT. 



" But I think," said Lawrence, " that I have given you a 

 long enough lecture for this time, so I will leave the elec- 

 tric light for to-morrow, when we are going on in the train 

 to Paris." 



"Yes," replied John, "that will be better; you have told 

 me now as much as I can well remember. I think I had 

 better make a memorandum with my pencil of the three 

 first kinds of light, and that will help me in writing my 

 article." 



So John took his note-book from his pocket and went to 

 the table to make his memorandum. 



The time occupied by the lecture was more than half an 

 hour, as a great many things were said which are not re- 

 corded in my report of the conversation. Accordingly, 

 when John, after completing his memorandum, went up on 

 deck, he found that the light which was beaming from the 

 harbor at Boulogne was a great deal brighter and seemed 

 much nearer. Indeed, they were now about half across 

 the Channel. They arrived about midnight, and John, find- 

 ing, when they reached the hotel, that he was too tired and 

 sleepy to write, concluded to go to bed, without attempting 

 to do any of the next day's work that night, which Law- 

 rence thought was a very wise conclusion. 



After he had gone to bed, and just as he was going to 

 sleep, he called out through the open door to Lawrence, 

 who was in the next room, 



" Lawrence, I forgot all about my plan of going to Paris 

 second class !" 



" Never mind," said Lawrence ; " lie down and go to 



