writers swore it worked. The result was that we had a crowd around our EE shop next day.

Most of them were just curious, but there were a few with money enough and curiosity enough to try a few tapes. When they went out and told the crowd about it, others started coming in.

Being near Gotham University, in two days we were handling a crowd of students so big they lined up for blocks. They came in with their money clutched in their hot little hands, and they went out crammed with every bit of knowledge their own professors had.

Then after three days, the Better Business Bureau, the District Attorney's office, and the police all came down on us.

"This thing is a barefaced swindle of some kind and I shall see that these two men get prison for it," the D.A. announced.

Carter had been expecting just that, and had a lawyer all ready when the preliminary hearing was held.

He brought in our witnesses—joyful college students who had quit going to classes altogether because they were dead sure of passing anyway.

Then Carter sprung his clincher.

"Your Honor," he said to the judge, "the courtroom janitor has agreed for a consideration to let me demonstrate Electro-Education on him. Is the court agreeable?"

The court was agreeable. So right there in the courtroom, Carter set up our EE apparatus and used it on the janitor.

This janitor was a big fatheaded old guy they called "Puddinghead," on account everyone around court knew how dumb he was.

Well, Carter shot all our law courses into him. He gave him not only Civil Law, Criminal Law, Corporation Law and Theory of Jurisprudence, he also gave him graduate courses in such fancy stuff as the Justinian Code and Medieval Ecclesiastical Law.

When it was over, and it took little more than an hour, old Puddinghead got up and talked. He not only proved that he knew everything now about the law—he proved that the judge himself was woefully ignorant about a lot of it.

"Electro-Education is obviously all it claims to be," said the judge quickly, to stop this painful exposé. "Case dismissed."

The courtroom exploded with excitement. Reporters crowded wildly around Carter. I found the judge himself 

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