Lutz says that she was still-born but Peter is sure that his memory is not playing him tricks as he remembers holding the baby and hearing her cry. It's infused throughout the story as Peter, trapped by his guardian, the old soldier Vilna Lutz, seeks his sister Adele. Just occasionally you pick up a book which it's impossible to put down – whatever your age – and The Magician's Elephant is one of these books. In desperation he performs the sleight of hand which should result in a bouquet of lilies but mutters the words of a far grander spell and through the roof of the opera house an elephant plummets into the lap of a lady in the audience and she is crippled. He's only the warm-up act and they'd really like him to go and for the virtuoso violinist to come on stage. But where in this chilly, northern clime would he find an elephant?Īt the opera house the audience is watching the magician with some indifference. But he had to have an answer to the question and when he asked he was told that, yes, his sister was alive and that the elephant would take him to her. To go in and get an answer to his only question would cost all the money that he had – and he'd been given it to go out and buy the cheapest, poorest food that was available. Peter Augustus Duchene hovered outside the fortune-teller's tent in the market square. He realizes that the poor animal is heartbroken and wants to go home, so he promises to help.Summary: A perfect, heart-warming story for the eight-plus age group. Peter goes to the countess’s house and sees the elephant. Police officer Leo Matienne, who lives below Peter, tells him that the countess is putting the elephant on display the following Saturday. However, a countess who desperately wants attention soon buys the elephant and places it in her ballroom. Peter can’t find the elephant’s exact location. The magician is in jail, and, since he failed to send the elephant back to where it came from, the pesky pachyderm resides in a horse stable. Then one day he hears that a magician conjured one, which promptly fell through the roof of the city’s opera house and crippled Madame La Vaughn. She will lead you there,” the fortune teller says. The fortune teller confirms that Peter’s sister is still alive, but finding her won’t be easy.
But when he sees the fortune teller, Peter knows he can’t leave the market without asking about his long-lost sister, whom he’s been told is dead.
Orphan Peter Augustus Duchene walks to the market in Baltese to buy food as his guardian, the former soldier Vilna Lutz, instructed.
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