If to this be added the repetition by various voices of the same word,
the first occasion probably when the subject's eye is seen to pass over
the printed passage where it occurs in a paper, words will be brought to
the victim's ear hypnotically.

But perhaps the first system mentioned is used where the difficulties of
approach are greater, the rascals must have great patience.

When the victim begins a letter the date is called to him, and then he
can be tested by calling, say, July to him in September. His name may be
called when in reverie, perhaps in the country, his mind goes back to his
boyhood.

Thought reading is very easy if a person is visible, and rascals begin
from a distance, and finally operate between hypnotics out of sight.

They seem in this first to catch a person when he passes a window. This
shows that they are susceptible to the amount of light, as well as that a
thick wall is a greater obstacle than a pane of glass. They thus too may
partly distinguish environment, though this is perhaps learned by
practice.

Ear and eye and muscular feeling are all weighed. A strong man much
hypnotised in this way, will notice that a diminished light will relieve
him, although previously he paid little attention to any glare, even up
to the age of forty.

Residence changed from a ground floor to a lofty room would often cause
unusual relief. On a church tower this would be felt even more.