Those smoke scenes, too, are astonishing.

Of course they could be accounted for as thrown upon a column of white smoke by a magic lantern, but there was certainly no magic lantern here.

The juggler was standing close to me, and the girl was sitting at his feet.

I watched them both closely, and certainly they had no apparatus about them by which such views could be thrown on the smoke." "You recognized the first scene, I suppose, Doctor ?" Bathurst asked.
"Perfectly.

It took me back twenty-five years.