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 of sound, why then should not the senses be interchangeable? Why should not man be able to see with his ears or to smell sound? Are not all the senses merely vibrations of light which act on certain hidden nerves in our bodies? If only the sense of hearing could be translated into sight I The trouble is we have so many senses we develop none acutely. How does the mole find its way about in the earth without sight if he has not in some peculiar manner solved the difficulty of blindness? Scobee must be taught to hear on a Celestial plane. Sight was possible for him. But how to attain it, how?

Then he thought of Canton, of the Chinese garden of his youth, of his boyhood home of which he was now the master but which he had never visited since his parents had died. It was well cared for by the sons of Cheng Foong. He received periodical reports in the most minute detail. Far away though he had been, the estate had been carefully administered.

Perhaps in that Cantonese garden Scobee