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McMurtrie began to dictate, the stenographer's pencil flying over the paper as he sought to overtake the rapid utterance of his chief. The article, as it appeared on the second page of the Sphere an hour later, ran as follows: HOCUS POCUS A hoax, or as our merry ancestors would have called it, a flam, is usually the most ephemeral and evanescent of human devices.
"A possibility out of science but seeming as magical to us in our primitive time." "Witches' magic?" "No, superstitions and hocus pocus aren't in our lexicon. We are beyond that. Einstein's idea that time is relative Anyhow, we will be wind long before a means of traveling or transporting ourselves near the speed of light is devised."
There was no doubt but that some of them had been partly sawed through, in order to weaken them so that only a moderate pressure was required to break them off short, close to the ground. "So that was his game; eh?" exclaimed Dave in a justifiably angry voice. "Whose game?" asked Pocus Pete. "Len's! That's why he wouldn't stop to help me.
The smell of fire and smoke was in the air, and the crackle and roar of the flames sounded louder. The cattle heard and were afraid. "Come, Dave!" called Pocus Pete. "Guess we'll find our work cut out for us over there now. They won't need us to help with the plowing." Indeed the cowboys in charge of the cattle had their hands full.
Carson glanced keenly at the lad, and something he saw in his face caused the ranch owner to start. "Was there any trouble?" he asked. It was the same question Pocus Pete had propounded. "Well, Len Molick and Whitey Wasson had some of our cattle in with theirs." "They did?" "Yes, but Pete and I easily cut 'em out. But Oh, Dad!" The words burst from Dave's lips before he thought.
Those honest folk who had suffered from their incantations gradually recovered, excepting such as had been afflicted with twitches and aches, which, however, assumed the less alarming aspects of rheumatism, ciatics, and lumbagos; and the good people of New England, abandoning the study of the occult sciences, turned their attention to the more profitable hocus pocus of trade, and soon became expert in the legerdemain art of turning a penny.
"From the manufactory of foreign goods in the city of New York, or from their traveling agents!" "Oh, my dear young lady, how you wrong me! This article came from " "The factory of Messrs. Hocus & Pocus, corner of Can't and Come-it Street, City of Gotham!" "Oh, my dear young lady " "Look here, my brave buccaneer, I know all about it!
For several miles they rode on, speaking but seldom, for a cowboy soon learns the trick of silence it is so often forced on him. As they turned aside to take a trail that led to Forked Branch, Dave, who was riding a little ahead, drew rein. Instinctively Pocus Pete did the same, and then Dave, pointing to the front, asked: "Is that a man or a cow?"
He was not particularly anxious to meet Acton, for Phil, in the holidays, had given Jack a pretty correct inkling of Acton's character, and he began to see in fact, he did see that Raffles and the shooting and the billiards, and the hocus pocus of "hedging on Grape Shot," and the trip to London, etc., was only one involved, elaborate plot to strike at Phil.
"Why this is what I call Hocus Pocus work!" said Mr Hobson; "but I shall make free to ask the chairmen who they are waiting for." Mrs Belfield, however, anticipated him; for running into the passage, she angrily called out, "What do you do here, Misters? do you only come to be out of the rain? I'll have no stand made of my entry, I can tell you!"
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