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his exquisite lamps have made known the magic of colour in every quarter of the world. "During the years 1932-3 I frequently met in the street a man who so closely resembled Mr. Deighton Patmore that I began to believe in the saying that everybody has a 'double'. After the second or third encounter, however, I became puzzled, as this 'double' was always dressed in the identical clothes Mr. Patmore was wearing that day. If he wore a grey suit so did the other man, until at last I decided it was somebody impersonating Mr. Patmore. We discussed it together, and Mr. Patmore then made frequent changes in his attire, but it was always the same; whenever I met the other man the clothes would be the same, in colour and style. "One day I left the office for my lunch, which I usually had at a restaurant in Piccadilly. Mr. Patmore was busy, and said he would just have a sandwich and carry on, and I left him eating this. Imagine my surprise, therefore, when I looked up from my lunch and saw Mr. Patmore sitting at a table near me. I could not believe my eyes, and, asking for my bill, I left the table to speak to him, but before I could reach him he got up, seemed to look right through me, and walked out. "When I returned to the office I found Mr. Patmore working in his room, and he insisted that he had not left the building. I said, 'Well, it must have been that man again, but how could he know you would wear a check bow-tie today?' "A few days later the same thing happened again, although on this occasion Mr. Patmore had a luncheon appointment at his club. Again I saw the man sitting at the far end of the restaurant, and as on this particular day Mr. Patmore was wearing a new suit for the first time, and the figure at the table was dressed in a replica of this, I decided that it must be