Kid with the Golden Touch

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I don’t chalk up many failures. But this kid had me stopped.

There aren’t many of us in the business. I’m on call with some of the best private agencies, which is where most of my work comes from. You take a nice club, if they suspect a member of cheating, they don’t go to the local law, they get hold of a good agency. If it happens at your club, it’s about a 50–50 chance that I will show up. I won’t look like what you expect. I’m fat and bald and closer to 60 than I care to admit. Back in Keith circuit days I had a magic act. Mostly card stuff. I got interested in the sharpies. I used to go on lecture tours after that, wearing a black mask. Then I worked the big passenger liners, tying a can to the sharpies until my face got too well known in the trade.

Now I’ve got a little magic shop in Manhattan, and a good kid I can leave in charge when I go out on call. The calls usually don’t last long.

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