“And so say I,” added van Rheijn.
“Yet,” remarked Grenits, “even from that low point of view the problem would be worth studying. Don’t you remember what we saw in the den at Kaligaweh?”
“Bah! bah!” cried all in disgust.
“Come, no more of that,” said van Nerekool very seriously. “If your experiment is to reproduce any scenes like those—then I will take no part in it.”
“That is exactly my opinion,” said van Rheijn, “and I am anxious therefore to give to our investigation a totally different aspect, and to conduct it on strictly scientific principles.”
“Very well,” observed Grashuis; “but who is to conduct this scientific investigation—to do that we need a man of science.”
“Yes,” said van Beneden, “we are no doubt most competent representatives of the judicial, the civil, the mathematical and the commercial branches of the community; but we do not represent the faculty.”
“Just so,” replied van Rheijn; “but I have made provision for that?”
“In what way?”
“I have invited Murowski to join us.”