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                           A MODERN WIZARD

                                  BY

                         RODRIGUES OTTOLENGUI
    AUTHOR OF "AN ARTIST IN CRIME," "A CONFLICT OF EVIDENCE," ETC.


                         G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
            NEW YORK                            LONDON
    27 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET        24 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND
                       The Knickerbocker Press
                                 1894


                           COPYRIGHT, 1894
                                  BY
                         G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
                 Entered at Stationers' Hall, London


                  Electrotyped, Printed and Bound by
                  The Knickerbocker Press, New York
                         G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS




                                  TO

                        HON. GEORGE P. ANDREWS

                   JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF
                        THE STATE OF NEW YORK

           WHO IS RECOGNIZED, NOT ONLY AS AN EMINENT JURIST
                    BUT AS A TYPE OF HUMAN JUSTICE
                         AND LEGAL INTEGRITY

                 THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED




CONTENTS.


BOOK FIRST.

  CHAPTER                                     PAGE
     I.--LAWYER AND CLIENT                       1
    II.--JACK BARNES INVESTIGATES               17
   III.--A WIZARD'S TRICK                       32
    IV.--DR. MEDJORA SURRENDERS                 53
     V.--FOR THE PROSECUTION                    70
    VI.--DAMAGING TESTIMONY                     84
   VII.--THE PROSECUTION RESTS                 101
  VIII