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The following method of holding a break after a spectator has peeked at a card is the finest and most deceptive yet discovered. The use of the little finger, described above, has been kept a closely guarded secret by first rank card men but, good as that method is, the one now to be described is far superior from every point of view.

During the action the tip of each finger remains fully exposed to view and there does not seem to be any possible way in which the spectator’s card can be controlled.

1. Place the pack in the left hand, the middle phalange of the third finger pressing against the side at the inner corner, Fig. 1, the pack being beveled to the right as shown.

2. Offer the pack to a spectator, inviting him to glimpse the index of a card by breaking the pack open at the outer right corner. His action will open a break down the length of the side of the pack; when the spectator releases the cards above his glimpsed card, the break will close automatically, but not before the flesh of the middle phalange of the left third finger has been pressed into, and retains, a break at the inner end.

3. This break is later taken by the right thumb in the act of squaring the pack and the chosen card can then be controlled by the side slip, the pass, the shuffle or any other means as desired.