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So now I climaxed it: "If you make no mistake - if you tell me truly what I want to know - I will give you two hundred silver pennies." "The fortune is mine! I will tell you what you would know." "Then tell me what I am doing with my right hand." "Ah-h!" There was a general gasp of surprise. It had not occurred to anybody in the crowd - that simple trick of inquiring about somebody who wasn't ten thousand miles away.

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