pages: latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf, 137
This data as json
path | page | folder | text |
---|---|---|---|
latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 137 | THE RIDDLE OF THE PYRAMIDS 121 pyramids. I have managed to collect a small quantity of an unknown force which answers very closely to Lord Lytton's description of Vril, and I have charged this wand with it. As regards kill- ing things, I have only tested it SO far on a black beetle. The experiment was a success. He was blown to atoms, all but one hind leg. I should like to try it on a tiger; if I could get one cheap. Does any gentleman present know of a second- hand tiger in a good strong cage going cheap ? No? I was afraid you wouldn't. I am hoping however for a chance of trying it some night on a burglar. If a gentleman of the Bill Sykes per- suasion should steal into my chamber at dead of night with felonious designs upon my Waterbury and my collarstud, he will be as a dead man. I shall just point this wand at him and say 'Die,' and he will be merely a little heap of ashes to be swept up by the housemaid in the morning. "I can however give you an example of the power of my Vril as a motive force. I shall do so by using it to build or rather rebuild this little pyra- mid in your presence. "This is a correct copy of the real thing. It takes to pieces, as you see. One, two, three, four, five!" As he pronounces the last few words, the per- former, standing behind his table, picks up the pyramid, and holding it aloft in his right hand draws away the base from the other sections, slid- |