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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 171 | THE MYSTERY OF MAHOMET 155 becomes very sensitive to colour. I will just give the ball a rub with this red silk handkerchief and drop it into the tube again." Drop in white ball after rubbing, keeping tube closed; then raise it and show red ball at bottom. "Here it is again, you see, but it has taken the colour of the handkerchief and is now a rosy red, a sort of maiden's blush; the blush of a very shy maiden. Unfortunately maiden's blush is not a fast colour, unless it's the wrong kind; the kind that's rubbed in with a powder puff. This kind soon gets pale again. I rub the ball again, this time with a white handkerchief, and again drop it into the tube." Drop in red ball, tube closed, lift and show white ball, under cover of its appearance transferring tube to opposite hand and allowing red ball to run back into palm to be got rid of a moment later. "I think I heard a lady say, 'Where is the red ball ? This is the red ball, at least it was the red ball a moment ago. There is no other, for, as you see, the tube is empty." Again drop tube over candle as in Fig. 30. Pass ball from hand to hand and finally make believe to swallow it, meanwhile dropping it into the pro- fonde. "After being treated like this the ball becomes so volatile that I used to be always losing it. But I never lose it now. I just swallow it and then I |