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"I do need so many new and expensive things." "We've got to experiment a little further, first," said Destyn. Sacharissa laughed: "You blindfold me, give me a pencil and lay the Social Register before me. Whatever name I mark you are to experiment with." "Don't mark any of our friends," began Linda. "How can I tell whom I may choose. It's fair for everybody.
"Whom have I selected?" inquired the girl, whisking the handkerchief from her eyes. "What are you having a fit about, Linda?" And, looking at the page, she saw that she had marked her own name. "We must try it again," said Destyn, hastily. "That doesn't count. Tie her up, Linda." "But that wouldn't be fair," said Sacharissa, hesitating whether to take it seriously or laugh.
Squinting at the viewless ether through his monocle he beheld millions in it; so did William Augustus Destyn and the other sons-in-law. Only the unmarried triplets, Flavilla and Drusilla, remained amiably indifferent in the midst of all these family financial scurryings and preparations to secure world patents in a monopoly which promised the social regeneration of the globe.
Meanwhile, the Carr family and its affiliations had invested every cent they possessed in Green Mouse, Limited; and those who controlled the stock were Bushwyck Carr; William Augustus Destyn and Mrs. Destyn, née Ethelinda Carr; Mr. Killian Van K. Vanderdynk and Mrs. Vanderdynk, née Sacharissa Carr; George Gray and Mrs.
It is now known the world over that Professor William Augustus Destyn has discovered that the earth we live on is enveloped in Psychical Currents. By the Destyn-Carr instrument these currents may be tapped, controlled and used to communicate between two people of opposite sex whose subconscious and psychic personalities are predestined to affinity and amorous accord.
She knew nothing about parliamentary procedure; neither did her younger, married sister, Ethelinda, nor the recently acquired family brother-in-law, William Augustus Destyn. "The meeting will come to order," said Sacharissa, and her brother-in-law reluctantly relinquished his new wife's hand all but one finger. "Miss Chairman," he began, rising to his feet.
"I think I'd better go to town and tell my son-in-law, William Destyn, exactly what has happened to me," he said. "And I think I'll go through the kitchen garden and take my power boat so that those devilish reporters can't follow me. Ferdinand!" to the man at the door, "ring up the garage and order the blue motor, and tell those newspaper men I'm going to town.
"Bill, dear," sighed Linda, "how exquisitely you explain the infinite." "Fudge!" said Sacharissa; "go on, William." "That's all," said Destyn. "We agreed to put in a thousand dollars apiece for me to experiment with. I've perfected the instrument here it is."
Sacharissa's expression became skeptical; Linda watched her husband in unfeigned admiration. "These new and hitherto unsuspected currents," continued Destyn modestly, "are not electrical but psychical. Yet, like wireless currents, their flow eternally encircles the earth.
"Think what William's invention means to the world! Think of the time it will save young men barking up wrong trees! Think of the trouble saved no more doubt, no timidity, no hesitation, no speculation, no opposition from parents." "Any of our clients," added Destyn, "can be instantly switched on to a private psychical current which will clinch the only girl in the world.