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"The box was lying on the divan in the first room where he said he had left it on going out for a cab." "Does nane o' the evidence show if Mrs. Irvin had been to Kazmah's before?" "Yes. She went there fairly regularly to buy perfume." "No' for the fortune-tellin'?" "No. According to Mr. Gray, to buy perfume." "Had Mr. Gray been there wi' her before?" "No.
Tell her that she belongs in this fortune-tellin' business. Cut up a few of yer dance capers git her interested en I'll find out why they ain't on the road to a getaway." Landy turned into the double track that led north followed by a reluctant midget. He watched the paths for signs of recent travel but continued his recitations of local history. "These Barrow folks ain't bad jist ornery.
This fellow Strange, with his fortune-tellin' and his charms and his conjures, has hocus-pocussed the whole neighborhood. He's gettin' rich off of the Mexicans. He knows more secrets than a priest; he tells 'em whether their sweethearts love 'em, whether a child is goin' to be a boy or a girl, and how to invest their money." "He is nothing more than a circus fakir, Mr. Jones." "Yes'm!
"Well," he began, "to make a long story short, I started on this lay just after old Magnus' death, when a friend of mine in the fortune-tellin' line told me Mrs. Magnus was a spiritualist." "A spiritualist?" I queried, in surprise. "Oh, yes; had been for years. That give me my clue, so I ah got into the house." "How?" demanded Godfrey. "That's telling."
All you want to do now is to work hard and forget all that fortune-tellin' foolishness. "She whirled on me like a top. "'Forget it! she says. 'I GUESS I shan't forget it! It's comin' true, I tell you same as all the rest come true. You said yourself there was ten thousand Butlers in the world. Some day the right one the handsome, high-ranked, distinguished one will come along, and I'll get him.
I ain't that good, am I?" Bowers looked his pleasure at the tribute. "Good?" ironically. "You oughta sew spangles on your shirt and wear ear-rings and git you a fortune-tellin' wagon.
Seems she'd been over to the Cattle Show at Ostable one year, and she was loaded to the gunwale with some more or less facts that a fortune-tellin' specimen by the name of the 'Marvelous Oriental Seer' had handed her in exchange for a quarter. "'Yup, says she, bobbin' her head so emphatic that the sky-blue ribbon pennants on her black hair flapped like a loose tops'l in a gale of wind.
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