A more imaginative man would have replied with a fiction. But not Kellar. Everything I do is guided by method and order. It is because we work by system that our experiments never fail. Everything is arranged in advance and ends according to calculation.
Nothing is left to chance.
The same things are page 71 always done in precisely the same way, and the methods employed become very nearly infallible. The pace quickened when Thurston came on. There was no conflict, no overlapping of tricks, with the material Kellar offered in the first half. There were actually three mystifiers on the bill those two weeks at Ford's, although the third man is ignored in the histories. He was Bella Hassan, a Hindu who joined Thurston's company when the American visited India.