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Grey handed me a book, which I found to be a register of the names of the members of Brande's Society, and pointed out the place for my signature. When I had written my name on the list I said to Brande: "Now that I have nominated myself, I suppose you'll second me?" "It is not necessary," he answered; "you are already a member. Your remark to Miss Metford this morning made you one of us.
My age was thirty-one years, and my salient characteristic at the time was to hold fast by anything that interested me, until my humour changed. Brande's conversational vagaries had amused me on the voyage. His extraordinary comment on the Universe decided me to cement our shipboard acquaintance before reaching port.
"Oh, I was thinking of something else. And I remember now, it was Johnson who gave me the telegram." "Johnson left yesterday, sir." "Then it was yesterday I was thinking of. You may go, Phillips." So Brande's telepathic power was objective as well as subjective.
Had Brande's heart stopped beating, his face could not have become more distorted and livid. He moved close to me, and, glaring into my eyes, hissed out: "You altered my formula?" "I did," I answered recklessly. "I multiplied your figures by ten where they struck me as insufficient." "When?" I strode closer still to him and looked him straight in the eyes while I spoke.
But I could not waste time in trying to solve the puzzle, for I did not know what moment some other visitor might arrive to see how Brande fared. I first examined with a pocket microscope the ink of the manuscript, and then making a scratch with Brande's pen on a page of my note-book, I compared the two. The colours were identical. It was the same ink.
I was almost at the end of the corridor. So intent had I been on preserving perfect silence, it did not sooner occur to me that I was searching for any special door. I had forgotten Brande's number! I could no more think of it than one can recall the name of a half-forgotten acquaintance suddenly encountered in the street. It might have been fourteen, or forty-one; or a hundred and fifty.
If any one cares to understand more clearly the why and the how, let him either go and see for himself or read about it in Brande's Encyclopædia. Mysie and the Baron were content to bask ignorantly in the glittering, ever-changing, ever-flowing flood of light, dreaming of Fairy Land, and careless of philosophy.
Brande's vocation at the time was pronounced 'lecturing on velvet. In 1820 Faraday published a chemical paper 'on two new compounds of chlorine and carbon, and on a new compound of iodine, carbon, and hydrogen. This paper was read before the Royal Society on December 21, 1820, and it was the first of his that was honoured with a place in the 'Philosophical Transactions.
"I shall be very glad indeed to bring Miss Brande to the hall," I answered, changing the sentence in order to correct Brande's too patronising phrase. "The same thing in different words, is it not? If you prefer it that way, please have it so." His imperturbability was unaffected. Miss Brande here entered the room.
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