Charlevoix county herald., 1908-06-27

mer, though | don't understand 1t my
self, to tell the truth. It's marvellous
faculty possessed by friend or mine
for knowing what's going in in place,
though he may not be personally pres
ent, or have any means or communica-
ton. You can lay out here on the
table an entire pack of cards, face up,
and touch any one OF the SO. Then
step to the telephone and call up my
friend, and he'll tell you what card you
have touched"
Impossible" said the patient. "Td
bed almost anything that it can't be
done. 1t might be worked if you did
the telephoning, and had some combi-
nation Of words, or code of signals to
use in talking to your friend. from
which he could tell what card had been
picked out. But if do the telephon-
ing-why, I'd wager a ten-spot he
couldn't tell the card"
Done" said the dentist
He produced a pack of cards and
handed them to the drummer who
shuffled them thoroughly, and laid
them out, face up, in four rows Of Is
cars each At the dentists request the
drummer touched one, that CHANGED
to be the ten-spot of diamonds.
Now" said the dentist, 'step to the
phone, call 300 Cortlandt, ask for my
friend, tell him that you're at my Of
flee and have touched card, and ask
him what card you touched"
The drummer did as directed, and
after moments pause, the words
came over the wire: THAT was the ten
Of diamonds you picked OUT
The money was the dentists.
The loser pressed him for an expla-
nation of the trick, for trick he be-
lieved 1t to be, but the dentist insisted
that he was as much in the dark as
the drummer, who thereupon left the
Office.
There's a catch somewhere" said
he to his friend, the credit man, to
whom he related his experience, land
I'd give another ten-dollar bill to know
just where"
We'll" said the credit man, "I'm not
averse to making tenner or two my
self, and being forewarned, l think
can detect his little game-for it must
be game, as you say. Suppose l drop
around to see your dentist friend this
afternoon? l have a little filling that
might just as we'll be done now as any
other time. He'll likely get talking
cards with NELL steer him on to it
if he doesn't. I'll make little wager
with him myself, and watch him close
ly, and perhaps I'll see the game be-
fore it is really worked, and be able to
catch him in the act You said it was
worth ten to you to know how it was
done. If I meet you here at six and
tell you how, is that tenner miner"
1T u.s." exclaimed the drummer, pro-
vided, of course, you do not get the Sc
cret by persuading the doctor to tell
you-and as for that, I'll trust to your
honor"
Done" was the reply, and they
went their several ways.
Six o'clock came, and thye met in
the dining room.
Well" began the credit man,
you're stung-and so am |. l went
through practically the same expert
ence that you did-picked out the ace
Of spades, and the dentists friend
promptly told me what card 1 had
touched. / watched them an carefully
during the whole proceedings. While
1 was getting 800 oCrtlandt he paid no
nattention to me at all, but continued
to read in a book he had picked up but
a moment before l selected the card"
Its certainly most mysterious af-
fair all the way through" was the
drummer's reply, "and I'd give any
thing to know just how 1t was
worked"
The two did not meet again for near
ly year, when they ran across one
another on lower Fifth avenue one day,
and stopped to chat, and the credit
man remarked:
"By the way, do you remember how
we two got fooled on that card game
of your dentists last year? That Ran
some, who worked with him, must be
a pretty slick one. Id like to look the
doctor up and ask him to introduce me
to the fellow"
"Ransome?" excltimed' the other. 81
don't remember that the name was
Ransome. My memory isn't very good
as to that part of the occurrence, but
1t strikes me 1t was more like Ram
say"
mo, I'm pretty sure it was Ran
some" was the reply, "but of course
( may be mistaken. Ramsay or Ran
some, however, he was pretty clever
fellow, and we were neatly done, both
of us. Lunch with me on the strength
OF it,"
Accordingly they adjourned to a
nearby cafe, and were selecting from
the dinner card when the telephone
bell on the bar behind them rang. Yes,
This Is 800 Cortlandt." they heard the
bartender say.
They pricked up their ears on the
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