Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-09-18

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fellows can't talk about anything else
anyhow"
'eYust vait dill you see him once,n re
torted the complacent Halpert, satisfied
that it was his graphic description o
the show that had won Clymer over.
That night Bloomingburg's Grand Oper
House was pa ,ked to the walls. Th,
performance was good one, inquest
lonably; most of the illusions were new
even to Clymer, and the deftness of the
young magician was really marvellous
If Clymer had been in his norma
condition he would have taker
deep interest in the exhibition. Fin
ally the shifted scenes showed the stage
set for the concluding part of the pro
oramme-the cabinet act. When tn,
professor requested the aid of some well
known gentleman in the audience, Hal
bert suggested the name of ClymeI
which was speedily caught up by others
He accordingly went forward and took
his place on the stage. The professor
then took the two doors of the front OF
the cabinet and leaned them against the
wall. He then "called the gentlemen's
particular attention " to the fact that
there was no possible communication
with the cabinet from below nor from the
wall behind. For the edifcation of the
audience he turned the cabinet round on
its rollers, in order that they might see
that there was no door in the back
After having returned it to its former
position and replaced the doors, he put
a chair, tambourine and some bells in
the cabinet.
"It will be necessary to blindfold the
gentleman and tic his hands," he ex-
planned, blandly.
Clymer made no objection. Seating
himself in the chair, he placed his hands
in readiness for the cords, only taking
care to close his fists tightly and thus
silk handkerchief was then tied over his
eyes, and after few remarks by the pro-
fessor the door was slammed shut. ely
mer Immediately devoted himself to the
task of slipping his hands out of the
cords. This was no easy thing to do,
and the bells and tambourine had been
going for minute or two before he fin
ally got free and pushed the handkcr-
chief up from his eyes. One glance at
the materialized spirit before him satisfied
him, and stepping to her side he put his
arm around her waist and said:
"Amy, why did you leave me2"
The being in his arms gave q slight
scream and dropped the bells on the stage
as she jerked her hands back into the
cabinet. If the audience hadn't been de-
voting themselves so vigorously to
applause over the supposed discontinue
| of Clymer, the professor might have
gotten some inkling that his spirit was in
trouble, but as it was he only knew that
the dropping of those bells was the sig
nal for opening the doors of the cabinet,
| and this he proceeded to do at once,
swinging them back to their full width
and stepping aside so that the view OF
all the auditorium might be unobstruct-
ed. The gaping spectators took one
breathless look, and then broke into
vociferous acclamation again. They
thought they understood the situation.
Clymer had found out how the trick was
done, and was going to expose it. How
ever, he did not appear to be altogether
satisfied with the result. He relaxed his
hold of Amy and she stepped from tn,
cabinet and slipped out of sight among
the scenes, whispering word to thu
frowning professor on the way. Clyme
went forward to the footlights and made
his first effort at oration, amid an i'm
pressive silence:
'Ladies and gentlemen, feel that
ought to offer word or two of explana
ton. The young lady who has just lef
the stage is not stranger to me. ha'
hoped, until recently, that she woul,
some day consent to be my wife. l wa
very much surprised to find her here.
did not intend-she wasn't-wouldn't--
The indulgent audience kindly helpet
the stammerer out by brief burst of ap
plause; as it subsidized, the stentoriar
voice of Halpert was heard:
"Dot's all ride, Glymer, boot how die
she get in dot gabinet2"
GLOW did she get in there2" repeated
Clymer, vaguely, as if that had nothing
to do with it. 81 don't know how she
got in there"
The audience made no attempt to con
ceal its disgust The professor was al
smiles once more, and with a profound
bow gave the signal for dropping the
curtain. Clymer at once hunted up Amy,
whom he found in tears, but not disposed
to be at all frigid toward him. In reply
to his questions she said:
sit was all Eds fault. His assistant
lately met with an accident of SO serious
a nature that it finally caused his death
Ed is so jealous of his tricks and myster-
les that he was afraid to employ new
assistant, and he begged me to come and
help him. He said it would not be
necessary for me to appear before the
audience at all, but simply to hand him
apparatus from the scenes and see that
things were IN shape so that there would
be no hitch. You see there are two more
of us besides Ed and me, and we are all
dependent upon Ed. Mary and Ella are
both at school, and, of course, the ex-
pense is considerable. Ed talked so dis
mally about it thatI felt il would be mean
of me to refuse to help him, especially
as it seemed impossible for me to find
anything else to do. l thought you
would not care to continue our acquaint-
ance after turned out to be sleight-of-
hand performer"
Interval of few moments, during
which the reader will please kindly
look through the advertisements while
Clymer convinces Amy of her error
~ suppose" continued Amy, arrang-
Ing her hair, which was apparently on
the point of coming down, ~ suppose
our old friends would be Mortified to
know that we are in such an occupation.
They used to applaud Eds cleverness at
evening parties, when we were in more
fortunate circumstances, but it's differ
ent when he makes money out of it, you
know"
She was intnrrnntnd hu the entrance of