JOHN, I _must_ go out. I shall scream if I sit here, I
_know_ I shall!
_John_. No, no--what's the use? He'll have fired long before you get
to the door. Much better stay where you are, and do your screaming
sitting down. (_The Conjuror fires._) There, you see, you _didn't_
scream, after all!
_The L. w. N_. I screamed to _myself_--which is ever so much worse for
me; but you never _will_ understand me till it's too late!
[Herr VON K. _performs another trick._
_First Lady in Plush Cloak_. That was very clever, wasn't it? I can't
_imagine_ how it was done!
_The M. in E.D. (in whom the memory of his desecrated hat is still
rankling_). Oh, can't you? Simplest thing in the world--any child
could do it!
_Second Lady_. What, find the rabbit inside those boxes, when they
were all corded up, and sealed!
_The M. in E.D_. You don't mean to say you were taken in by _that_?
Why, it was another rabbit, of course!
_First Lady_. But even if it _was_ another rabbit, it was wearing the
borrowed watch round its neck.
_The M. in E. D_. Easy enough to slip the watch in, if all the boxes
have false bottoms.
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