“Not exactly at Gombong; but at all events very close by, at Karang Anjer. Do you know Miss van Gulpendam?”
“Pretty Miss van Gulpendam! Of course I do,” exclaimed the doctor.
“Very well then, Miss van Gulpendam has gone to Karang Anjer, and she has taken our friend’s heart along with her.”
“That’s smart,” replied the Pole, quite mistaking the meaning of the word he employed.
“Oh, you think so?” asked Grashuis, drily.
This conversation, as may well be supposed, was highly distasteful to van Nerekool. He hastened to put an end to it by saying:
“Gentlemen, I vote we begin to think of our experiment.”
“Ah, you are right,” exclaimed the doctor, “our experientia by all means; experientia optima rerum magistra you know. By-the-bye, did you receive the parcel I sent you?”
“Oh, yes,” answered Grenits, “you will find it safe on that little table yonder.”
Thereupon Murowski produced his instruments; a couple of thermometers, a hygrometer, an aneroid barometer, a stethoscope, and a small chemical balance.