Vitus's Dance,--was adroitly
trapped into admitting that she had really wanted her fiance
smitten with paralysis. "A wish," Gerald Kirby announced, with a
dramatic flourish of his hands, "that so aroused my client's
indignation that, instead of giving her the spell she wanted, he
gave her one that would make her affianced husband more than ever
hungry for the marriage hour to arrive. As for St. Vitus's Dance,
would any woman, with an emotional and hysterical-nature, such as
obviously was that of Lady Coralie Mars, ever be free from such a
complaint?"
The Hon. Augusta Mapple, who stated that she had visited the
Modern Sorcery Company, for the purpose of obtaining a spell to
bring about a defeat of the Government, by afflicting the bulk of
their supporters with such bilious attacks as would necessitate
their absence from the House, and that, instead of giving her such
a spell, Edward Curtis had given her one which had caused every
member of her household to fall downstairs--admitted, under
cross-examination, that she had asked for a spell that would make
every supporter of the Government in the House be suddenly seized
with tetanus. "A diabolical request, your lordship," Gerald Kirby
said, "and one to which my client could not possibly accede.
Consequently, as a punishment for such cruelty, he sold her a
spell that would result in her having a sharp attack of toothache.
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