I stated in the first pages of this part that the mind-reading street test should be advertised by little diamond-shaped cards, which are to hang in store windows or any place where they will he read.

The street drive is quite an important thing and. as I passed over the test on foot without definite instructions. I will demonstrate to the student the methods he is to pursue whether he is to go in a carriage or on foot. On foot will do in towns up to six thousand, but when you are in places larger than that you will find that the drive is the only thing that will take.

You are to give your test at I o'clock, as the advertisements say. That means that you will give it about a quarter of two. But the crowd begins to assemble early. Von have gone to the manager of the opera house or the one who is really conducting your entertainment or is at the head of the society under whose auspices you are playing. He has thought of various names and has finally made up a list. Your manager or the other gentleman will go to these various people and try to get their consent to act in that capacity. This is not always possible, but there is never much difficulty in getting four or five men - usually four will be enough - to take charge of the test.

Quite a number of men are lounging around the hotel to see the test while others have gathered about the entrance to see you when you start. When the men are ready, do not address them in private, but let those in the lobby hear you so that there will be no false impression as to your intentions. The man who gives the hypnotic entertainment would give his speech to the assembled crowd if he saw fit. But when the mind-reader is putting on this feature all alone, he must not lower his dignity enough to give a street-corner talk.

You have your cotton and your bandages there. There are two physicians, perhaps, who are awaiting the opportunity to blindfold you. You have told the public that a test would be given, in which some of their fellow-townsmen would act as fair judges and as supervisors of the test, you have told them that some article would be hidden, that you would, when blindfolded, drive over the same route as that taken by these merchants and professional men and that you would find that article.

Out in front of the hotel is the carriage. This must always be about the finest that the town affords. If it has a high front seat so much the better. Of course you do not need a driver, so he will have to remain at the hotel and take back the span and carriage after the test has been finished.

Everything is ready. When that moment arrives, and not until then, will you make your little explanatory speech to the committee, and, incidentally, to those who are gathered to hear or to see what may be enacted.

"Now, gentlemen," you say, stepping toward the committee who are seated in the hotel lobby - or "office," as it generally is called in these smaller towns - "I will outline to you the test that is to be given. None of you are aware of the exact nature of the test. I have not given it out in detail. Every test varies so that it cannot be charged that I have a particular trick that I am imposing on the public. I realize that many gathered here this afternoon expect to see trickery. Perhaps all of you expect that I am about to perpetrate some fake upon you. I want you to take that light. All I ask of you is to give me a fair trial and I know that you will. If my work is trickery, I want you to publicly denounce me as a fraud.

"I am going to have two of you gentlemen address a letter. See that there is a stamp on it and that it is sealed. See also that it has something inside of it. Make it as near like other letters as possible. Then, you will go to the carriage, drive around as many squares as you care to only being careful to remember your route, and deposit that letter in a lockbox of the postoffice. Then take that key, drive wherever you please and hide it. Come back to the hotel and then I will be blindfolded and will drive over your exact route from the time you started from here until you hid the key and then to the postoffice over any route you may choose. Cover your tracks as carefully as you please. Hide the key anywhere in town, in a store, a church, a school or a private dwelling.

One of the committee will remain here to watch me. You understand me, do you, gentlemen?"

They assure you that they do, and then you retire to a room in which the shades are drawn and sit there with the committeeman and two or three others who have come in. Be sure that no one in any way connected with you is allowed to come in.

It takes about fifteen minutes before the committee come back. In the meantime the crowds are gathering on the street. You have become worked up to a nervous pitch over the matter by this time and you are all ready to do your work well.

When the committee are ushered into your room, instruct them to adjust your bandages. Have the pressure on the eyes moderate and have the pads plainly showing so that the crowds can see them. It is probable that two or three men experienced in adjusting bandages will do the work and you are blindfolded as securely as any one was ever blindfolded in his life. But you must be sure that the gentlemen of the committee feel the same way about it.

"Now, gentlemen, are you quite sure that it is impossible for me to see through these bandages?'* They will not hesitate in telling you that, if you have depended upon sight, you will be sadly disappointed. To the man who is actually doing honest work, this is most welcome. Were one inclined to think he could work a fake on these people simply because they reside in a little town, he will find that he is greatly mistaken.

"You have taken the letter and placed it in a lock box of the post-office and then hidden the key?"

"We have," answered the spokesman.

Then you adjust the copper wire if you use it, or you use twine if you are expert enough at that.