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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 28 | 12 LATEST MAGIC this point; but even a novice may very well carry it a stage further. To do so, he will in the first place replace the card in the box, in such a manner that it can be again "vanished." In gathering together the outspread cards, he takes care to place the queen of clubs on top of the rest. As this, however, is the double card, the actual top card is of course the missing seven of diamonds. It is an easy matter, in handling the cards, to detach this from the queen of clubs, and, after a little "talkee-talkee," show that it has left the box and returned to the pack. The above would, however, be much too crude and elementary a proceeding to commend itself to the expert. In the trick next to be described the same expedient is employed after a more subtle fashion. THE MISSING CARD The requirements for this trick consist of two complete packs of cards and an extra card, which we will suppose to be the knave of diamonds. One of the two packs, which we will call A, has on top a card made adhesive at the back as above described, and its own knave of diamonds at the bottom. The other pack, B, is wholly unprepared. The first step is to offer pack B to be shuffled, and when it is returned to palm on to it the spare knave of diamonds, after which the pack is left |