Then Molly's turn came. Her fate was quickly spoken. "Yours is a husband six feet tall, and your children will number nineteen, as they sit about your meagre table." Molly groaned, as she yielded her place to Florence. "I see a lordly house, richly furnished and filled with servants. Within is a devoted husband who watches over a wife with golden hair." "How elegant!" said Polly. "Now it's my turn." And she held out her hand with a smile. "You will suffer much and have much happiness," the voice went on. "You will love deeply and be loved in return, and the end will more than repay the beginning." "Isn't that queer!" And Polly withdrew, to ponder on her mystical fortune. "Now Jessie," said Mrs. Adams; "see what fate has in store for you." "I'm half afraid," she said, laughing. "Love, happiness, and sunshine," was what she heard. "A tiny cottage simply furnished with a teapot and eleven cats." There was a shout. "Now, Alan." The brown hand trembled a little, and the eyes under the veil looked right into Alan's, as she spoke. "Some pain, much joy; a slow, even growth into a glorious manhood that knows no wrong, but lives for truth. Whatever else maybe is hidden from my sight." "What a splendid one, Alan!" exclaimed Polly, her face flushing, as she took in all the meaning of the words. And Katharine added quietly,-- "You have read us very well, Aunt Ruth." "Mamma?" exclaimed Molly and Alan, in a breath. "Yes, mamma," answered Mrs. Hapgood's voice, as she quickly shed her wrappings. "I thought I would have a finger in this pie, too. But how did you know me so soon, Katharine?" "I knew nobody else would say what you did, for it was just a part of our talk the other day," she replied, as she unpinned the thick veil from Mrs. Hapgood's hair. "Good-night, Mrs. Adams," said Jean, as they stood grouped about her in the hall. "This has been a lovely Hallowe'en, and I shall always remember it, I know." "I hope you will, too, till next year," added Alan suggestively, as he went out into the bright starlight. CHAPTER IX. THE NEW READING CLUB.