CHAPTER VWonderland
Promptly at ten the following morning, their various affairs in order for an indefinite time, the three met again in Brooks’ laboratory. He was looking as alert as usual, full of confidence that his experiment would be successful.
“Just one thing I should mention,” he said, as he switched on the dynamos. “This machine will keep us in that other plane as long as the vibratory effect lasts. That is to say, the moment we arrive there our vibratory rate will start to slow down imperceptibly as the atoms change their set-up in our bodies. The effect of the machine upon us will not be a permanent state. Like a charged battery we’ll begin running down, and when the effect has altogether faded—when the electric change of atoms has reverted to normal—we’ll find ourselves back
