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The Miracle Mongers
an Expos

CHAPTER TWELVE
10/18

She took the act to England and her opening performance at the Alhambra is recorded as one of the three big sensations of the London vaudeville stage of those days.

The second sensation was credited to the Bullet-Proof Man.

This chap wore a jacket that rifle bullets, fired point-blank, failed to penetrate.

The composition of this jacket was a secret, but after the owner's death the garment was ripped open and found to contain-ground glass! The third sensation I must, with all due modesty, (business of bowing) claim for myself.
The Magnet failed to attract after about forty-eight hours, for a keen-witted reporter discovered her methods and promptly published them.

The bullet detainer also lasted only a short time only.


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