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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 31 | THE MISSING CARD 15 Let us make sure first, though, whether he has really left the other pack." Picking up pack A, he counts the cards slowly, not looking at them himself, but showing the face of each before laying it on the table. "Stop me, please, if you see the knave of diamonds." He counts, "one, two, three, four,' and so on to the end. "Fifty-one cards only! Then there is one card missing, and as you have not seen the knave of diamonds, and as all the other cards are here, it is plain that it is he who has left the pack. We have still to find out whether he has obeyed orders, and gone over to the other pack. You wished him to place himself seventh, I think. I won't touch the cards myself. Will some gentleman come for- ward, and count them off for me?" (This is done.) "The seventh card is really the knave of diamonds, is it not ? "But, you may say, this might be the knave properly belonging to this pack. Please look through the pack, sir, and if there has been no deception you will find the proper knave in some other part of it. You have found the other knave ? Then you will admit that that proves clearly that this first one is the identical card the lady drew." 1 It would be easy to give other combinations dependent on the use of the adhesive principle, but 1 A somewhat more elaborate trick of mine on the same principle (The Elusive Card) will be found described in the Magazine of Magic, Vol. II, pp. 13, 47. |