The Man in Possession — page 132: what you’re looking at

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THE MAN IN POSSESSION. 127 CHAPTER: XIV. |" WHAT THE WIZARD TOLD AND FORETOLD. WueEn the acting was over the audience broke up into groups, and then it was that Lady Jocelyn whispered here and there of the wonderful fortune-teller who was to entertain them by his faculty of divination. The more sedate members of the party sauntered into the card-room, or listened to the music in the long drawing-room, or paid visits to the refreshment tables as a preparation for supper. The curious and the youthful section were all eagerness to hear what fate had in store, or hadalready done for them. Kate found herself drifting along with the crowd when she left her dressing-room, and finally confronted by a turnstile behind which stood a tall, white-browed individual wearing a high cap on which mystic signs were woven, and who handed a white ticket engraved with black cabalistic signs to each person who wished to interview the wizard. The audiences given seemed very brief, and judg- ing by the angry, flushed or disagreeable faces that left the mystic chamber, they were not exactly agree- able. Kate had not long to wait before her turn arrived, and she found herself in a small apartment hung all COMicloe (Sri C(O)