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again after I go back upstairs."
Then she ran upstairs again, leaving him scratching his head in bewilderment.
James was picking himself off the bed, looking more frightened than angry. He made a motion with
his hand once more, but uncertainly this time and Carrie did not let him finish it. She didn't even need the
cry of, "Vegetables!" to save her. She leaped at him and held his hands down to his sides. Then she
tried to tie him down with a pillow case. James was strong for his age and he struggled hard but she was
more desperate than he and she won.
"Stay there," she ordered. Then she picked up the book again.
The Perfect Hypnotist," she read. "By William Haskins. 2083. U. S. Govt. Press."
WhyтАФ2083 was the date of publication, wasn't it? Impossible! The book had been handed out by
mistake, of course, for The Perfect Hostess, but 2083тАФincredible. It wasn't due to be written and
published for another hundred years. You just couldn't confuse a book with something so far from
coming into existence.
In a trance, she turned the page. "Hypnotism is no subject for the uninitiated," she read. "It is a useful
but at the same time a most dangerous weapon in the arsenal of psychological treatment. The enormous
advances made in the past century, especially from 1978 on ..." The past centuryтАФthe more than a
century yet to come, she thought.
Impossible, she told herself again. This was not published in 2083. Or rather, it wouldn't be
published until 2083. Why, the important discoveries wouldn't begin to be made until 1978. Then, what
was it doing here?
"This book is therefore not meant for general circulation and should be kept out of the hands of all
but qualified medical men . . ."
It should, should it? She looked at the last of chapters. Hypnotism, General тАФ Hypnotism, Direct
ActsтАФGenerally Directed Hypnotic Conduct тАФ Hypnotism as Therapy тАФMass
HypnosisтАФHypnotism via Electromagnetic Waves тАФ Reverse Electromagnetic Effect ...
The list was incredible. The book looked thin enough, but there were over a thousand pages in it. It
was full of information. Too full.
She still didn't understand how it had got to the library shelves but at least one thing was clear. James
must have started reading it that very first day when he had got it for her. He must have realized what it
was and hidden it so that he might have a chance to study it. Hypnotism DirectтАФthat had been
Reardon. Hypnotism at Second and Third RemovesтАФthat had been Bill acting on his office, herself on
her bridge group, Barbara on her college mates. The Reverse Electromagnetic EffectтАФthat had been
all those weird happenings over television.
She stared at her bound and gagged son. If it hadn't been for that postcard and if she had gone for
the book herself instead of sending James, this wouldn't have happened. As it was the book had turned
him into a little monster.
Her own child! And she had thought that he was becoming such a fine upstanding young man of late!
Had he hypnotized her into thinking that? Probably. Just as he had tried to hypnotize her again before.
Let her untie his hands and he'd snap his fingers and in a moment her eyes would glaze ...
She shuddered. She couldn't let him loose. But she couldn't leave him there like that either. You can't
keep a child bound and gagged for the rest of his or your natural life. You can't do it for more than a few
hours. Sooner or later, even if it were only to permit him to eat, she'd have to untie him and then ...
She stared down at the book in her hands. How had it got here? Had some irresponsible person in
the year 2083 or so read it, just as James had done, and then gone around hypnotizing people at
random? Perhaps he had hypnotized someone who could operate a time machine and the bewildered
scientist had sent it backward in time.
She caught herself up short. Such speculations, to a practical woman like Carrie, were silly. The
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