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The head is then held downwards and the venom drains from its bag in the shape of a few drops of slightly yellowish fluid which, as conjurers know, may be drunk without danger. The patient looks faint and dazed, but recovers after a few hours and feels as if nothing had happened. In India I took lessons from a snake-charmer but soon gave up the practice as too dangerous.
She was thoroughly frightened by this time, and heat and faintness were alike forgotten. Incredible as was the story to which she had listened, there was about it a vividness that made it terrifying. "But I don't understand," she said helplessly, as the snake-charmer remained silent to her questions. "It is not possible! It could not be!"
The dramatic effect of the whole is enhanced when one of them allows a huge python, a snake of the Boa constrictor tribe, which kills its prey by crushing it, to wind its hideous, speckled coils round his body. What the snake-charmer is by race or origin ethnologists may determine when they have done with the gipsy. He is not a Hindu.
You will be glad to learn that Scipio, with his Chloe and the "leetle Chloe," were brought back to their old and now happy home that the snake-charmer still retained his brawny arms, and never afterwards had occasion to seek refuge in his tree-cavern.
"Form for the grand wedding march, the beautiful snake-charmer and the noble camel in front!" Betty skipped forward cheerily and wound an olive arm round the camel's neck.
After examining the snake, which by the King's orders had been brought for my inspection, he pronounced that it was not of French origin. "It has escaped from some snake-charmer," he said. The King seemed to be incredulous. "I assure you that I speak the truth, sire," Du Laurens persisted. "But how then did it come in my room?"
At the end of the next dance Betty and her partner finished up within a few feet of the camel. With the informal audacity that was the key-note of the evening she reached out and gently rubbed the camel's nose. "Hello, old camel." The camel stirred uneasily. "You 'fraid of me?" said Betty, lifting her eyebrows in reproof. "Don't be. You see I'm a snake-charmer, but I'm pretty good at camels too."
"I think," he said quietly, "that without knowing it you exaggerate both his cruelty and his strength. I know he is a queer chap. I once heard it said of him that he has the eyes of a snake-charmer, and I believe it more or less. But I assure you he is human quite human. And" he spoke with unwonted emphasis "he has no more power over you not an inch than you choose to give him."
She stopped to count the money before she turned two rupees and eight annas. It did not seem a very adequate reward for the service he had rendered her. With this thought in her mind she slowly turned. "This is all I have with me " she began to say, and broke off with the words half-uttered. She was addressing empty air! The snake-charmer had vanished! She stood staring blankly.
'Are you convinced now? asked Haddo coolly. The two women hurried to the doorway. They were frightened and disgusted. Oliver Haddo was left alone with the snake-charmer. Dr Porhoët had asked Arthur to bring Margaret and Miss Boyd to see him on Sunday at his apartment in the Île Saint Louis; and the lovers arranged to spend an hour on their way at the Louvre.
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