Three members of this journal's staff and Miss Powell sat in his car, Before embarking on the tortuous Journey through avenues and narrow Toads two pads. of cotton, half the size of a bank note were placed over his eyes, which were covered with a cotton bandage and then the remainder of a roll of medicated of. ton was held next, while a linen handkerchief was bound over the bandage. To blind him still. mora one of the gentlemen borrowed a four-in-hand from his colleague and fastened it at a lower point. The Professor's leather strap was affixed round his forehead and temples, When his nervous guests resumed their seats. the cinematographers grinding out their film, M. Langsner began his search for clutch and brake levers. At first he experienced difficulty in forming connexions between himself and tutor and both stepped from the motor-car, contented himself with a few mys. terious passes and waving of hands, and, instructing his tutor to con: centrate on the route, he moved off. the vehicle abruptly, which caused With a nervous motion he stop)
the next in line to crash into his, A scrutiny revealed a dented fender and body, and the party went on, His guide had a difficult experience indeed, for he was required to hold the professor's head firmly with his right hand, The other he—and he was no more nervous than those in the rear seat—was within a few inches of the emergency lever. Ricshas scooted out of the path of what seemed a madman's rampage, pedes trians bolted at the strident siren, while spectators astonished and nonplussed, gaped in awe. Ichabod Crane's maddened midnight gallop was child's play as esmpared to that of the party.
The Test Completed The winding Avenue Edward VIL offered no stumbling blocks to the exponent of telepathy, He skidded by islands and raced at 25 miles per hour at stretches. During the greater part of the drive the engine was in second gear.
Suddenly he got' the impulse to turn south, doing so as well as any Chinese chauffeur. The road was narrow ang full of traffic, but the professor did not strike 'a single object. At the intersection of Rue clu Consular he hesitated and-seemed to debate where to go. After 45 seconds he wont toward the river, the proper course, passing between a stationary tramear and the pavement on a true line, More hesttaticn on the French Bund. Then he reversed his machine and drove past his objective, the French Consulate General, over Avenue Edward VII and stopped before the A.P.C. Building.
The retracking to the Consulate began on foot, the tutor not touching him, "The bandage had become loosened considerably by this time.
He tried to enter the Semaphore station office, Blessageries Maritime passageway—adjoining the Consul ate, then crossed Rus qu Consulate lover After leaving ned efforts to climb
this point, he charged his tutor with not concentrating and the latter resigned his place to another, who dently worked in closer sympathy with the professor.
Despite the efforts of Annamite police to stop his entrance to the Consulate grounds, he wriggled through them and' in a moment Jranded the letter to BL. Meyrier, Executive Consul, to whom it had been directed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.