This time it was a bellowing voice that saved her. "_Vegetables!_" it called. The voice's owner had grown impatient of waiting and had opened the front door. "_Vegetable order!_" James was about to make the motion a third time when Carrie acted. Whatever possessed her to do such a thing she didn't know. It was as if some hidden person had given her a command and she had misunderstood it. She slapped his face as hard as she could, and James fell back on the bed. She stood there, horrified at herself, when for a third time the voice called, "_Vegetables! Say, lady, I can't stand here waitin' all day!_" She ran down the stairs and said breathlessly, "Put them down. I'll pay you tomorrow. I have no time now. Please come back tomorrow. No, wait. Stay here for just another minute, and yell 'Vegetables' 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." Why--_2083_ was the date of publication, wasn't it? Impossible! The book had been handed out by mistake, of course, for _The Perfect Hostess_, but _2083_--incredible. 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 century--the 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 list of chapters. _Hypnotism, General_--_Hypnotism, Direct_--_Hypnotism at One Remove_--_Hypnotism at Second Remove_--_Specifically Directed Hypnotic Acts_--_Generally Directed Hypnotic Conduct_--_Hypnotism as Therapy_--_Mass Hypnosis_--_Hypnotism via Electromagnetic Waves_--_Reverse Electromagnetic Effect_....