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As always in the presence of the opposite sex, and more than ever now, his vocal cords appeared to have tied themselves in a knot which would have baffled a sailor and might have perplexed Houdini. He could not even gargle. "He is very fond of watching golf," said the girl. She took the boy by the hand, and was about to lead him off, when Ramsden miraculously recovered speech.
Charity was terrified by the man's profane view of sacred things, and she was horrified to learn that she could only release herself and Cheever from the shackles by a kind of trickery. She would have to make her escape somewhat as she had seen Houdini break from his ropes in the vaudevilles, by retiring behind dark curtains for a while.
With even less beating about the bush Forsythe assured him he could not. The answer was final, and the disappointment was so keen that Sam soon begged his friend to excuse him, paid his bill, and rose to depart. "Better wait!" urged Forsythe. "You'll find nothing so good out at a music-hall. This is Houdini getting out of his handcuffs before an audience entirely composed of policemen."
"Oh, I must show you that." Joe showed me the Monkey's Claw afterwards, and it is a beautiful thing, but it was not a bit like Simpson's. Simpson must have started badly, and I think he used too much rope. After about twenty minutes there was hardly any of him visible at all. "Take your time, Houdini," said Archie, "take your time.
From the Davenport Brothers and Herrmann, on down through the line of lesser lights in the conjuring business even our own Houdini we know there is a trick somewhere; the fun is in finding it. Hanlon's is a new one and a gem I don't even begin to see through it yet." "Neither do I," agreed Mason Eliott.
The escape had been genuine all right. "Probably hunting for things they could use as weapons, and doing as much damage as they could in the process." There was evidently a pretty wide streak of vindictiveness in Fuzzy character. "I don't think they like you, Juan." "Wouldn't blame them," Fane said. "Let's see what kind of a houdini they did on these cages now."
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