"Cut something, please," she requested.
He slid the knife along the wagon's tailboard, and a long sliver of wood curled up. Cindy smiled sweetly.
"Do you want to try it on something else?" she asked.
The man merely stared at her. When Cindy stretched out her hand, he put the knife in it and backed hastily away. Cindy thanked him and went on with her show.
"You have seen for yourselves, ladies and gentlemen, that this knife is razor-sharp! Watch closely!"
Before the crowd could guess what was going to happen, they saw Cindy seemingly plunge the cruel blade into her heart. Blood spurted, and just before she fell Cindy heard a woman scream. A moment later Cindy got up, bowed, and to the mad applause of everyone except the man with cat's eyes, leaped lightly from the tailboard.
Still grinning, Alec joined her. "Gee! You were great, sis!" he exclaimed.
"Was I really?"
"Best ever. And you sure bowled over one member of your audience."
"The woman who screamed?"