Mysterious Benedict Society blog post #4

              I am now nearing the end of the book on my last blog post I had left off with the fact that Sticky had just been sent off to the waiting room, and as I had guessed, he did not come back out the same way, he became suspicious of Reynie and very secretive. He stopped helping out Constance and Kate during the tests and quizzes, which began to hurt the girls' grades, since they knew absolutely nothing about any of the questions on any of the tests or quizzes. Usually, at the end of the day when the guards yell lights out, Reynie and Sticky have a secret meeting and talk about what they were going to do about the whole Mr. Curtain problem, but after the waiting room, Sticky went straight to bed without saying a word to Reynie, which started to do more harm to Reynie than to Sticky.
         
      During this part of the book, I was also introduced, along with the rest of the children, to the whisperer, a fiendish machine that uses your uttermost desires against you, and with Reynie and Sticky doing so well in the classes, Mr. Curtain finally made them part of his little squad of henchmen. One of the things that the henchmen must do, is to go through the process of the whisperer. Reynie and Sticky were terrified of the machine because of all of the talk that goes around about the Whisperer. They heard that it strips you of all emotion and leaves you with nothing but pure fear, and if they were trying to scare Reynie and Sticky, it sure worked!
             
            Yet even after the warnings from all of the other henchmen about the horrors of the whisperer, the boys steel their nerves and get ready to enter the Whisperer. When they get to Mr. Curtain, he greets them with open arms and tells them that this will be the experience of a life time, of course the boys know that some of what he just said probably is not all that true.