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The Ace of Diamonds and the Hidden Gold
A narrator recalls ten tense minutes with a European banker friend facing a vanished national gold reserve. The keeper of gold discovers the vault above quicksand is empty, prompting a plan to buy time by proposing a staged panic while the narrator uses a card trick to avert a suicide. The ruse buys weeks but the gold’s fate remains unknown, leaving the affair unresolved and his faith in the nation’s prosperity unsettled.
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Paris
Rembrandt
Frederick Henry
Archives Nationales
Wolfenbuttel
United States
Europe
American Magicians Society
Bank of Liberia
Widow Jones
National Bank
Enk
Gol
Aureus
Aureum
Moscow
Magicians’ Society