" And she ran a finger down the column until
it indicated this line:
Among other things they have learned how to visit other worlds
without themselves leaving their planet. They do this by a kind of
telepathy.
"That's the explanation," Mrs. Kinney said quietly. Hill fairly
blinked when he read the paragraph. "They are trying out one of the
Venusian experiments?"
"Of course; you know the doctor. He couldn't resist the temptation.
And I must say the others are just as bad.
"Mr. Smith is quite as much interested as Mr. Van Emmon. Mr. Smith
is an electrical engineer; the other man is a geologist, and a very
adventurous spirit. As for Mrs. Van Emmon--"
"But this account mentions"--Hill referred to the magazine--"'E.
Williams Jackson.' Who was he?"
"She--not he. Mrs. Van Emmon now; she used to be an architect. She
had the other three fooled for ten days; she passed herself off as a
man!"
But Hill was too absorbed in the general strangeness of the affair
to note this amazing item.
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