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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
344
Well,
then,
I
will
bring
her
here
by
spiritualistic
means,
à
la
Mrs.
Guppy.
Pardon
me
one
moment.”
He
retires,
and
returns
with
a
square
box
and
the
magic
pistol.
Placing
the
box
on
the
table,
and
making
a
few
mysterious
passes
over
it
with
his
wand,
he
says,
in
his
deepest
tones,
“Spirit
of
Mrs.
Tubbs,
I
command
you
to
pass
into
this
box,
there
to
remain
until
you
have
repaired
the
damage
which
your
carelessness
has
caused.”
Then
taking
the
saturated
cambric
from
the
bottle,
he
crams
it
into
the
pistol,
and,
retiring
to
the
farthest
portion
of
the
stage,
fires
at
the
box.
Laying
down
the
pistol,
and
taking
up
the
box,
he
advances
to
the
owner
of
the
handkerchief,
and,
offering
her
the
key,
begs
her
to
unlock
it.
She
does
so,
expecting
to
find
her
handkerchief,
but
finds
instead
a
second
box.
This,
and
four
or
five
others
in
succession,
are
opened,
and
in
the
innermost
is
found
the
handkerchief,
folded
and
ironed,
as
if
newly
returned
from
the
wash.
With
the
reader’s
present
knowledge,
it
would
be
almost
superfluous
to
tell
him
that
the
operator
avails
himself
of
his
momentary
absence
to
damp
and
fold
the
handkerchief,
and
to
press
it
with
a
cold
iron.
(If
a
hot
one
can
be
obtained,
so
much
the
better,
but
there
is
no
absolute
necessity
for
it.)
Having
done
this,
he
places
it
in
the
square
nest
of
boxes
(see
page
197),
and
closing
them
returns
to
the
audience.
The
magic
pistol
has
already
been
described
(page
216).
Where
an
assistant
is
employed,
the
performer
merely
pushes
the
handkerchief
through
the
bottle
on
to
the
servante,
as
already
mentioned,
and
the
assistant,
passing
behind
the
table
on
some
pretext
or
other,
carries
it
off,
and
places
it
in
the
nest
of
boxes,
while
the
audience
are
occupied
by
the
pretended
discovery
of
wine
in
the
bottle.
The
trick
in
this
form
appears
even
more
surprising,
inasmuch
as
the
performer
does
not
leave
the
stage
at
all,
and
the
box
is
brought
in
and
placed
on
the
table
by
a
person
who,
to
all
appearance,
has
never
had
the
handkerchief,
even
for
a
moment,
in
his
possession.
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