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The Magic Detective, starring the world's greatest magician, Blackstone, he tells you the

inside story of the vanishing pearls, and right after the story, Blackstone will explain

tricks that you yourself can perform, reveal the guarded secrets of the world's greatest

living magician.

And now, stand by, poor Blackstone, the Magic Detective.

There's another one, quick catch it, Rhoda.

No, I've got it.

There goes the middle bowl with the edit.

How many help with their Rhoda?

Four.

And I'll get a couple more.

Why don't you start and you're doing waving that fish bowl around Blackstone?

He's fishing, Don.

Oh, don't give me any of that.

He's standing right in the middle of the room.

He's not fishing, there's nothing around him but air.

You ought to know by now, Don Hancock, the Blackstone is a very unusual man.

Anybody can catch fish in water, that's simple.

But I catch fish out of the air.

Look, I think you do all kinds of tricks, but this is too much.

Oh, I see, a doubting comment, huh?

Catch a fish for him, Blackstone.

All right, here goes.

There.

I got him.

Why?

Why, it's a goldfish, a live goldfish.

What was I telling you?

Take him, Rhoda.

Put him in the bowl with the others.

No, I got him.

There.

See, Don?

There are five fish in this bowl now and Blackstone caught them all.

Let's catch another one, Blackstone.

I'm going to keep my eyes on the bowl, all right?

How do you like this one, Don?

Great.

Got another one.

And you didn't take it from the bowl, either.

Of course you didn't.

You're doing aerial fishing.

Well, how do you do it, Blackstone?

Uh-uh.

No, no, Don.

That's magic.

Oh, you mean it's another of the magician secrets that you won't explain.

That's right.

Well, it's quite a trick.

It certainly is.

Telling about the time you used it to trap a thief, Blackstone.

Well, there's a story connected with it?

Yes, there is, Don.

A Mrs. Fitzroyal asked me to perform at a party she was giving out of that country pay.

Rhoda and I got there a little early, so we could run through the act.

And after we were through the rehearsal, we were sitting out in the patio.

There was a fishing pond in the center of a cauldron,

and Rhoda was talking bits of food.

My, these fish are hungry.

Look at the way they snap up these bits of bread.

There are rare species of carp, Rhoda, and they're kept hungry on purpose.

Why?

That seems sort of mean.

As a matter of fact, it isn't.

They're healthier when they're underpaid.

Oh, admiring.

Oh, my carp?

You bring it?

Yes, I was, Mrs. Fitzroyal.

Oh, they're lovely.

I'm very fond of them.

They're very variety.

I'm fortunate.

Oh.

Well, those men over there are carrying that apparatus into the house.

It looks like an X-ray machine.

Is somebody else?

Oh, no.

Nothing like that.

They're testing my toes.

Testing your pearls?

What do you mean?

But a few years ago, my husband gave me a pearl necklace,

and I never had it in short.

City of Nano, but my husband always attended to that sort of thing.

And if he died shortly after getting me the pearl,

I had just let it fly.

But what does an X-ray machine got to do with ensuring the pearls?

You're trying to find out if the pearls are real or cultured, isn't that it?

Yes.

A cultured pearl road is made by inserting a tiny bit of oyster shell into the oyster.

The pearl forms around it.

Under an X-ray machine, the bit of oyster shell will show up.

Oh, and real pearls haven't got that little speck in the center.

And that's right.

I have no idea of what my husband paid for the pearls.

I always assume they were real.

But the insurance company wants proof.

Well, you can't blame them when you consider a difference in value.

About $45,000, I believe.

Oh, that's some difference.

It says it is.

Oh, ladies and gentlemen, we're ready now to make the test.

Thank you, Benton.

Miss Benton.

My secretary, Benton.

How do you do?

This is a blackstone, Mr. Benton.

How do you do?

I'm glad to know you.

Would you be interested in watching the test, Mr. Blackstone?

Thank you.

No more.

I'd love here.

Let's go in, shall we?

May I have the pearls, Mrs. Fitzroy?

Here you are.

Oh, I'd say beautiful.

I'll put them here under the machine.

And now, if you turn out the life's freedom of print,

the switch is over there by the door.

And Mr. Blackstone, will you please draw the curtain?

What a beautiful view the patio seems ashamed to draw the shade.

Thank you.

Now I'll put the pearls in this tiny spot of light.

Oh, look.

They're absolutely perfect.

There isn't a single second, anyhow.

Your husband was right, Mrs. Fitzroy.

Those are genuine pearls.

There's no mistake about that.

Look at that hand in the light.

Somebody's grabbed the pearls.

The pearls are gone.

Lights roted.

Turn on the lights.

I'll open the curtain.

Someone in this room has those pearls.

Oh, they're gone.

There's a man coming over the patio wall.

Oh, let's go after him.

Stay here.

Call the servants and have them go after him.

We must be searched.

Jason, Stephen, come here.

Somebody bumped into me as I was going over the door.

It switched the light on.

I don't know who it was, but...

But no one left the room, Rhoda.

Somebody did bump into me, though.

I swear.

Someone could have entered the room after the lights went out.

I suppose.

And so on the pearls and made his getaway

before the lights went back on.

Is that man the beton, sir?

Who'd have jumped in better off here, Mr. Vax Jones?

The servants are hunting the grounds now.

They'll probably catch the fellow troops.

Oh, I hope so.

Have they caught him, Vax Jones?

Did the servants find any trace of him?

Not a sign of him, and they've searched everywhere.

I can't quite convince myself that there ever was such a fellow.

I keep feeling we would have noticed the door opening.

But we were so intent on looking at the pearls.

True, true.

We know that none of us saw them after that searching.

We all went through.

Really?

Will you have a cup of tea, Mr. Vax Jones?

Oh, thank you.

Thank you very much.

And a sandwich?

Thank you.

Here's for you to eat that sandwich, Vax Jones,

and not feed it to the car.

Oh, I am, sorry.

I was thinking, and...

Rude.

I have it.

Well, what do you mean?

Get me that fishing rod for my equipment.

Oh, what on earth is this thing?

Hurry, hurry.

Oh, okay, ma'am.

But I don't understand, Mr. Vax Jones.

Do you mean that you've discovered who stole my necklace?

Here you are, boss.

Thank you.

I'm going to do a trick for you, Mrs. Detero.

A very interesting trick.

I'm afraid I'm not exactly in the mood for tricks, Mr. Vax Jones.

I think you'll enjoy this one.

I've hurled this fish line around my head like this.

And then, best old, out of the air, I've hooked a magic car.

That's amazing.

Bro, take the fish inside and show it to Mr. Deteroil

under the X-ray machine.

I'm going to get bent.

I don't understand what you're driving at, Mr. Vax Jones.

I've found your toes, Mr. Deteroil,

but I'm afraid you'll have to choose between them

or your golden car.

Well, where were Mrs. Vax Jones's furlough's black stone?

I don't understand what you're driving at either.

Do you remember that I often, mindfully,

started peeping bits of my sandwich through the car?

Yes, I remember.

The car that had been so ravenous a few minutes before

wouldn't even nibble at the sandwich.

They eaten the pearls.

What do you mean?

It's just that.

Benton had stolen the pearls out from under the X-ray machine.

Broken the cord they were strung on

and tossed them into the fish ponds

when he drew the curtain.

And the fish were so hungry that they swallowed them.

And under the X-ray machine, you could see the pearls?

Exactly.

But why Benton?

Why did you suspect him?

He was the only one of us who had a chance to get rid of the pearls.

Before we were searched.

Oh, me darn.

But how could you be sure that the carp had swallowed the pearls?

You hadn't seen one of them under the X-ray machine.

That was a long shot I had to take.

But it wasn't certainly there.

And there wasn't any other man?

No.

Benton bumped into a rotor in the dark there,

so that we'd think there had been another person in the room.

And he did the only one who saw the stranger,

saw him in his imagination of course.

And anyway, there was no one else who would have stolen the pearls.

Mrs. Fitzroy wouldn't steal them from herself

and blackstone and I certainly wouldn't.

And so another mystery was solved by magic.

I say, what's that glass of water doing there, blackstone?

Are you going to show us a trick with it?

He ain't a way yet.

But what I really need for the trick is an ice cube.

Oh, here's the whole trailer.

Oh, good.

And the ice pack ice cube coming up.

No, that's a good one.

Drop it in the glass, Roda.

There you are.

Notice that the glass is very nearly full,

so the ice cube is pouring almost at the top.

Yes, I've noticed that.

Why is it just to make the trick easier?

Give it easy at all.

Now, here's a piece of string about eight inches long.

What are you going to do with it?

Adjust it.

I set the string across the glass

so that the string rests on the ice cube.

With the end hanging over the sides of the glass?

Yes.

Now the trick is to take the end of the string

and lick the ice cube right out of the glass.

Well, how are you going to do that?

You can't balance a cube of ice on the string.

Oh, I know.

Tie a loop in the string, make a lasso, and snag the ice cube.

No, Roda.

You're to leave the string just as it is.

Then take the ends of it, and lift the ice cube right out.

About touching the ice cube with your fingers?

Yes.

Study that one for a few minutes, Roda.

If you don't get it, I'll be back to explain it.

Oh, you better be back.

This is impossible.

And now, Blackstone, make the impossible possible.

You mean lift the ice cube with a piece of string?

I mean just that.

If you can do it.

You think I can?

Well.

It's really very simple.

And me, that's a salt shake, Roda.

Oh, what are you going to do?

Switch to another trick?

No, I'm just going to sprinkle some salt on top of this ice cube.

Like that.

What a talk I took away here.

Well, it speeds the melting of the ice.

Oh, yeah.

I can see that.

And the string begins to sink into the ice.

Give it a little time.

Sometimes in order better.

Oh, it's working very fast this time.

Oh, there it is.

What good does that do?

Well, if you give the ice a few moments longer,

it begins to harden again.

After the effect of the salt wears off.

Oh, we're doing that right now.

Oh, I see now.

What is it, Roda?

The string is freezing itself into the ice.

It's just about ready now, Roda.

I take the ends of the string.

I lift them slowly.

And the ice cube comes up with the string.

Right on the goa.

And I put it here on the table.

And the trick is done.

I hope you like that trick, ladies and gentlemen.

And now, until next time,

this is Blackstone saying good magic.

And goodbye.

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