l with your two daughters. You will go
to Europe. In England you will marry a French widow. Your two
daughters will marry well, and at 72 or 73 years old you will
die, leaving a widow, two daughters, and a large fortune."

Madame de Gore did not make her appearance at all, and after
Madame Mar had failed to induce her visitor to pay her an extra
dollar for a phrenological chart, she politely showed him out.

MADAME LANE, No. 159 MULBERRY STREET.

This distinguished lady lives in a dirty, dilapidated mansion, at
the corner of Grand and Mulberry Streets. The Cash Customer was
admitted by the Madame herself, who desired him to be seated for
a few minutes, until she had concluded her business with a boy of
about 17 years old, who had called to find out what would be the
winning numbers in the next Georgia lottery. Two dirty-faced
children were playing about the room, making a great noise.

One corner of the room was fenced off with rough boards, forming
a narrow closet, in which two people could, with some difficulty,
sit down. This was the astrological chamber; the mystic room
into which visitors were conducted to have their fortunes told.

Madame Lane is of the Irish breed; is red-haired, freckled, and
dirty to a degree. Her dress was ragged, showing a soiled, dingy
petticoat through the rents.

She seated her customer in the little room, produced a pack of
cards, and proceeded to tell his future, at times shouting out
threats and words of warning to the noisy brats outside. Then she
said:

"You are a man as has seen a great deal of trouble in the past."

It will be noticed that this is almost a universal remark with
the witches, probably because it is a perfectly safe thing to
assert of any person in the world.

"Yes, you have seen trouble in the past, not _real_ trouble, such
as sickness, or losses in business, but still, trouble, and your
mind has been going this way and that way and t'other way, but
now all your trouble and disappointment is past, and your mind
won't go this way and that way any more. Stop that noise you
brats or I'll beat you." (This to the children.)

"Your cards run lucky, 'cause you were born under Jupiter, and
folks as is borned under Jupiter will always be lucky in
business, in love, and in everything they undertake. If your
business sometimes goes this way, and that way, and t'other way,
it will all come out right, for when a man is borned under
Jupiter he must be all right in h