In many instances a trained conjurer would be far more apt to detect fraud than a trained scientist.
The best conjurers, magicians and palmists in India are fakirs.
The whole point of being a conjurer is that you won't explain a thing that has happened.
Then, having given the necessary directions, the conjurer went his way.
It is like watching a slow motion picture of a conjurer.
His role has been that of a conjurer concealing by illusion what is really happening to the defence effort.
He reminds me of a conjurer who mixes a number of ingredients together and then produces quite different articles.