"Gentlemen, I tell you I cannot play; but there is one thing I can do." "What is that?" they asked eagerly. "I can tell fortunes." "Capital! Will you tell ours?" "If you wish it; but, I warn you it may not be very flattering." "What card will you want?" _"The five of spades, please,"_ and it was handed to him with expectation of great sport. "I shall require one other thing, if you don't mind," he further said. "What?" they asked a little impatiently. _"A Bible."_ They could not produce one. "No, but you had one once," said the fortune-teller, "and if you had followed its precepts you would not be where you now are. However, I have one," and to their dismay he produced it. A pistol would hardly have been a more unwelcome object. But the fortune-teller began: "Gentlemen, you see these two pips at the top of the card? I wish them to represent your two eyes; this one in the middle, your mouth; and these other two, your knees. Now, in Revelation 1:7 I read, 'Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him.' The speaker is the Nazarene, once red with blood for sinners like you and me. Your eyes will see him, and you will have to stand before him to be judged. That is the future of your eyes," he continued; "now concerning your mouth and knees, let me read Philippians 2:9-11: 'Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.' From this I foretell that: your knees will bow to Jesus, and your tongue that used to say, 'Gentle Jesus' and 'Our Father,' will have to confess that he is Lord of all. Your eyes will see him, and when you see him, your knees will grow weak, and you will fall before his majesty." They got more than they bargained for; but he gave them some more. "Gentlemen, that is only the first reading of this card; now for the second, if you please. These five spades represent five actual spades that are already made, and may, ere long, dig the graves of you five sinners, and then your souls will be in _the lost world_ crying in thirst for a drop of water and you will wish you had never been born." The five card-sharpers were getting more and more fidgety; but it was useless, for they could not get out, as the train would not stop for some time yet.