CHAPTER I
THE FIRE TRICK
"Better put on your pigeon-omelet trick now, Joe."
"All right. That ought to go well. And you are getting ready for——"
"The fire trick," interrupted Professor Alonzo Rosello, as he and his young assistant, Joe Strong, stood bowing and smiling in response to the applause of the crowd that had gathered in the theatre to witness the feats of "Black Art, Magic, Illusion, Legerdemain, Prestidigitation and...
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