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I 'll give five to one there 'll be a similarity . '' Questell got the foundation for the sonics lab dug , and began pouring concrete . That took water , and the pump ran continuously that afternoon . Concrete-mixing took more water the next day , and by noon the whole village population , down to the smallest child , was massed at the pumphouse , enthralled . Mom was snared by the sound like any of the rest ; only Sonny was unaffected . Lillian and Ayesha compared recordings of the voices of the team with the pump-sound ; in Gofredo 's they found an identical frequency-pattern . `` We 'll need the new apparatus to be positive about it , but it 's there , all right , '' Ayesha said .