4. TWO CARDS CHANGE PLACES
Invite a spectator to assist you and place him on your left. Let him shuffle a pack of cards to his own satisfaction and hand it back to you. Then remark that any card will do for the peculiar experiment you are about to try and that you will use the top card, whatever it may happen to be. In the meantime you have prepared for the double lift and, in apparently turning the top card, you turn two cards as one. Suppose the card that shows is the Seven of Clubs; call attention to it, name it aloud, and turn the two cards face down on the pack.
Deal off the top card—an indifferent card—face down to your right, as you say, “Please remember this card, the Seven of Clubs.”
Continue, “Now, we will take the next card”; and again you make a double lift, showing this time, let us say, the Four of Diamonds. Turn the two cards down on the pack; deal off the top card, calling it the Four of Diamonds (really it is the Seven of Clubs), to the left and have the spectator place his hand on it. Slip the tip of your left little finger under the top card of the pack, the Four of Diamonds. Pick up the indifferent card on your right, keeping its face toward you; look at it and say, “Now I have this Seven of Clubs, while you hold. the Four of Diamonds. Please keep your hand firmly on your card.” Place the indifferent card on the top of the deck, square the two cards at the top lightly, and—thanks to the break held by the tip of the left little finger—you are prepared for another double lift. Continue, “You know it was an Irishman who said that, not being a bird, he couldn’t be in two places at the same time. All scientists are agreed that even for a bird that is impossible, but I maintain that an object not only can be in two places at the same time but even that it may be nowhere at all. I’ll use these cards as an example. Watch. I merely say Pass, and here is your Four of Diamonds”—make a double lift and show that card—”and you will find that you have the Seven of Clubs.” The spectator turns his card and finds it is the Seven of Clubs.
Casually turn your two cards face down on top of the pack, make an overhand shuffle, and lay the pack on the table. Any search the spectator may make for a duplicate card will be futile and only heighten the effect of the transposi-tion. Although the method is so simple to work, the trick is a bewildering one to the onlookers. It affords excellent practice in the execution of the double lift.
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