than any other way I ever heard of, but I can't guess how it
helps."

"Can't any of you?" and Hanlon looked around the circle.

"Wait a minute," said Aunt Abby, who was thinking hard. "Let me
try. Is it because when the thought waves jump from the `guide'
to you they strike your forehead first--"

"And it acts as a wireless receiving station? No, ma'am,
that isn't it. And, too, ma'am, I owned up, you know, that
the whole thing was a fake, a trick. You see, there was no
'thought-transference,'--not any--none at all."

"Then what do you accomplish with your forehead muscles?" asked
Eunice, unable to restrain her impatience.




CHAPTER V

THE EXPLANATION


"Just this, Mrs. Embury, the impossibility of my being
blindfolded. As a matter of fact, it is practically impossible
to blindfold anybody, anyway."

"Why, what do you mean?" interrupted Hendricks. "Why is it?"