2. THE ACE OF CLUBS, THE SIGN OF MONEY
Effect. A half dollar is extracted from an unprepared Ace of Clubs.
Method. We will suppose that you are seated at the bridge table and that you have a coin—a half dollar, for example—palmed in your right hand. Take a pack of cards and shuffle it.
You may even spring the cards from hand to hand; the palmed coin will not interfere with the action. Run through the pack—being careful, of course, to keep the back of the right hand toward the spectators—and take out the Ace of Clubs, at the same time explaining that in cartomancy this card represents money. Take the card in the left hand by one end at the tips of the fingers and put the pack down with the right hand.
Let the coin drop to the finger hold in the right hand and take the card from the left hand by the free end, at the same time sliding the coin onto its back with the right thumb. Show the left hand empty on all sides and take the card and the coin with that hand, sliding the latter onto the back of the card with the thumb and holding it there. Now show all parts of the right hand and at the same time secure the coin in the left finger palm and hold the card by the extreme end at the tips of the fingers. Flick the back of the card with the right hand; turn it and flick the face, to show there is nothing concealed in it. Turn it again, face outward, at the tips of the left fingers and again slide the coin on the back.
Remove the card and coin with the right hand, sliding the coin under the right thumb as before. Turn the card upright and grip the top left corner with the left thumb and forefinger, holding the coin at the back. Slide the right hand down the card, fingers in front and the thumb at the back, several times, each time showing the hand empty. At the third movement nip the coin with the thumb and carry it downwards, producing it from the lower end as if it had been squeezed out of the body of the card. At once hand both for examination.
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