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Without an accomplice he could not act; with an accomplice his secret would be betrayed. Suddenly a line in one of the newspapers returned to him. It was to the effect that to discover the lost will several clairvoyants, mediums, and crystal-gazers had offered their services. Jimmie determined that one of these should be his accomplice.
"Don't people go to clairvoyants and crystal-gazers and astrologers when they want to get tips about the future? I'm your wizard to-night." "All right. Tell us our fortunes." Clive reached over for the pack of Patience cards that Merle had left on the table, and shuffled them elaborately. "The wizard is now ready to wizz. I may mention that my fee is only a guinea.
I see with startling vividness events that actually come to pass, and sometimes with equal perspicuity events that, as far as I know, are never fulfilled. And this I feel sure must be the case with all crystal-gazers, if they would but admit it. My method is very simple.
At least, the description given by crystal-gazers as to the way in which the picture appears reminded me of nothing so much as what I saw when I stood inside the largest camera in the world, in which the Ordnance Survey photographs its maps at Southampton. "But there are many such things in Nature, though we have not the right key to them. We all walk in mysteries.
Of late years, and especially since I took up theosophy, I have found great joy and comfort from my association with the S.P.R. I am in touch with several very wonderful thought-readers, crystal-gazers, mediums, and planchette writers, who have often strangely illumined the dark places of life for me.
"All these fortune-telling people who have sprung up round Bond Street I mean the palmists and crystal-gazers, and people like that do they proceed upon any knowledge whatever, or are they all absolute humbugs?" "To the best of my belief," he answered fervently, "every one of them.
From the spiritualists and the theosophists to the crystal-gazers and the palmists, all these occult practices are, in reality, merely the result of a more or less intensified desire to communicate with the spiritual worlds.
My world doesn't take much interest in crystal-gazers and palmists, amateur or professional, even when they happen to be handsome women, like the Countess. But I ran against her again on board the Monarchic about a month ago, crossing to this side, and we picked up threads of old acquaintance. She was staying at the Savoy when I left London."
But in none of the thronged chambers did I discover her. When I came back, the waiting-room for prospective crystal-gazers was empty, and Emmeline herself was just leaving it. "What!" I exclaimed. "All over?" "Yes," she said; "Sullivan has sent for me. You see, of course, one has to mingle with one's guests. Only they're really Sullivan's guests." "And what about me?" I said.
"You mean to one of these crystal-gazers or fortune-tellers?" he asked. "Precisely," she answered. "No doubt you think that I am mad, but if you had any idea of the women in our own set who have done the same thing, I think you would be astonished. Well, whilst I was there I chanced to drop, or leave behind it scarcely concerns you to know which a letter written to me by a very dear friend.
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