"She was not. She is the president, I believe, of The Green Mouse Society. She explained to me that it has been indisputably proven that the earth is not only enveloped by those invisible electric currents which are now used instead of wires to carry telegraphic messages, but that this world of ours is also belted by countless psychic currents which go whirling round the earth----" "_What_ kind of currents?" "Psychic." "Which circle the earth?" "Exactly. If you want to send a wireless message you hitch on to a current, don't you?--or you tap it--or something. Now, they have discovered that each one of these numberless millions of psychic currents passes through two, living, human entities of opposite sex; that, for example, all you have got to do to communicate with the person who is on the same psychical current that you are, is to attune your subconscious self to a given intensity and pitch, and it will be like communication by telephone, no matter how far apart you are." "Brown!" "What?" "Did she go to your office to tell you that sort of--of--information?" "Partly. She was perfectly charming about it. She explained to me that all nature is divided into predestined pairs, and that somewhere, at some time, either here on earth or in some of the various future existences, this predestined pair is certain to meet and complete the universal scheme as it has been planned. Do you understand, Smithy?" Smith sat silent and reflective for a while, then: "You say that her theory is that everybody owns one of those psychic currents?" "Yes." "I am on a private psychic current whirling around this globe?" "Sure." "And some--ah--young girl is at the other end?" "Sure thing." "Then if I could only get hold of my end of the wire I could--ah--call her up?" "I believe that's the idea." "And--she's for muh?" "So they say." "Is--is there any way to get a look at her first?" "You'd have to take her anyway, sometime." "But suppose I didn't like her?" The two young men sat laughing for a few moments, then Brown went on: "You see, Smith, my interview with her was such a curious episode that about all I did was to listen to what she was saying, so I don't know how details are worked out. She explained to me that The Green Mouse Society has just been formed, not only for the purpose of psychical research, but for applying practically and using commercially the discovery of the psychic currents. That's what The Green Mouse is trying to do: form itself into a company and issue stocks and bonds----" "What?"