"If you see all that in my hand, it is quite clear that the trouble you say is hanging over me now will not lay me out." "You will always triumph over your enemies, but they will do you much harm. Fortune will soon smile on you. You are about to come into possession of riches." "Where am I going to get it? I have no such expectation." "Good luck, like trouble, often comes upon us unaware. At this moment you are close to a fortune in money." "The dickens I am! I'm afraid you're making a mistake there." "It is so written in your hand and will come to pass." She dropped Dick's hand and the seance was over. "Your hand is, on the whole, a lucky one," she said. "The fates smiled on you at your birth. Favorable planets were in happy aspect. Saturn alone casts its malignant influence across your life's path, but will not prevail." With a sweep of her arm toward the door, Dick understood that he was dismissed, and he walked back to the house somewhat impressed by what he had learned. CHAPTER IX.--In the Mirror. When Dick reached the house, he found Madge waiting for him. "Where have you been?" she asked. "I walked down the road as far as my property. Did you know there were gypsies camped on it?" "Why, no; are there?" "Yes. They have two tents, a hut, a wagon, and a sort of rough barn for their horses." "They have no right to camp there. They are trespassing." "Oh, well, they won't harm the property, and they'll go away in the spring." "How do you know? Were you speaking to them?" "I talked with one of the men, and with the woman who heads the tribe. Her name is Miriam, and she told my fortune." "Really?" cried the girl, with a smile. "What did she tell you?" "Many things that I know to be true, and some things that I hope will turn out true." "Then your fortune was a good one?" "On the whole, it was. You'd better call on her and have your fortune told." "Perhaps I will, if aunty will go with me. Come, now, tell me what she told you." Dick repeated as near as he could remember all that the gypsy woman had read in his hand, with the exception of that part referring to his sweetheart. "I suppose she said you'd marry the girl of your choice and live happily ever afterward," laughed Madge slyly. "Sure; they always put that in to make you feel good." "So she said you were going to come into a fortune soon? Isn't that nice?" "It's too nice to be true." "It might happen." "I haven't a rich relative in the world whose death would put me on Easy street." "Then you'll get the money some other way." "I don't know of any other way unless I robbed a bank, and I'm not likely to do that." "You might find a pocketbook full of money." "If I did I'd return it to the owner if I could locate him." "Well, let us hope you will get the money somehow. Most people wouldn't worry how money came to them as long as they got it."