The illusionist was riding high on international bookings.
He and his partner toured the world entertaining and thrilling audiences with their well-publicised performances for a number of highly profitable years. She would appear as his beautiful assistant, wearing scanty, glittering costumes. He, The Great Eldorfo, would put himself into the most impossible situations, keeping the audience breathless, then by some unfathomable means free himself! The fact that the illusions were performed so convincingly, held the customers spellbound. So much so, that when leaving the venue, they immediately recommended the show to any of their friends who had not already bought tickets. This became so regularly the case that their shows were so often extended, therefore adding another few days before moving on. This created a schedule that had the two of them working at a blistering pace.
It was probably this aspect of their lucrative act that brought on a rift between them. Although she was making very good money for showcasing him at every event, the fifteen percent of takings she had originally agreed to, no longer seemed to be anywhere near enough. This consideration became the basis for a growing number of arguments about what she was worth. Despite her putting forward a very reasonable case concerning her fair share of the profits, he simply wouldn’t budge.
After a particularly acrimonious confrontation on this topic, the following evening’s performance ended badly. The final act, one that involved him being suspended by the ankles in a large tank of water, went horribly wrong!
Several ghastly minutes of watching him struggling in the tank, had a stage hand come forward with an axe and the stage was flooded. After being taken down, the attending medics quietly pronounced him dead. The audience was asked to leave the premises in a respectful manner, while the distraught assistant sat weeping with a blanket wrapped around her.
What followed was the inevitable press coverage and a coronial inquiry that found it to be a case of accidental death. Soon after this came the approach from a publishing house with a generous offer for her to write her own story about her time with Eldorfo.
Naturally, the memoirs made no mention of the key that Eldorfo held under his tongue, that left the venue with her on the night, and nothing about how she had laboured for almost an hour on it, using her best sapphire nailfile, the evening before their fatal final performance.
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