- Lone watches the twins and the baby doing something. He asks Janie to explain.
- She says the baby is communicating with the twins. Lone says he used to be able to hear babies.
- Janie, after reading Bonnie's mind, explains, the twin says all babies can do it. Lone responds that he could do it as an adult.
- Janie replies that Lone must have been an "idiot," defining the term as someone who can't understand people but can understand babies.
- Lone says the infant, now called Baby with a capital B, is some sort of "idiot" as well.
- Beanie, via Janie's telepathy and speaking, says that Baby is more like an adding machine. What? Adding machine? Extremely simplistic digital computers had only begun to be produced in somewhat large quantities at the time this novel was written. Basically, large businesses used them for accounting. Yeah, there's not much technology in this book. Kind of weird how none of the characters are carrying cell phones around the way we do, right?
- Janie struggles to explain to Lone what an adding machine is. Lone finally understands it's something that answers questions, but points out Baby lacks buttons to push.
- She explains Lone can ask her a question and she can communicate it to Baby. Baby will send the answer to the twins, who will tell Janie, who will then give the answer back to Lone.
- He wonders what to ask and finally asks about how to fix Mr. Prodd's truck so it won't get stuck.
- After using her telepathy, Janie tells Lone that Baby doesn't know what a truck is and that the pieces of a question have to be explained.
- They explain pieces to Baby, who tells them to stop driving on the field to avoid getting stuck.
- Lone asks what they should do if the truck has to be used there.
- Baby's next answer is to put big wide wheels on the truck. Lone says they lack the time, money, and tools for that.
- The Q&A continues for a while. Janie says Baby is becoming smarter, matching up the facts they're giving him and responding with correct but odd answers about random things such as soup.
- Finally they figure out Baby needs additional information about something like radio.
- The next night, Lone breaks into a radio service shop and steals a bunch of books. Here we go.
- Janie reads the books on electricity and radio. Baby absorbs the information from her mind faster than she can even read it.
- Baby ultimately comes up with a simple, unique device that requires pushing a knob to make the truck heavier or pulling it to make the vehicle lighter. Cool.
- The novel describes how amazing it is that these strange characters built this device only to help an old man (Mr. Prodd) who is mad, needs to work, and cannot afford to buy a horse to unstick his truck.