Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-26


face Redeemed with shame.
"That doesn't make any difference.
though" she continued, 81 can read it all
the better for that. The lines are bigger,
you know"
didn't know, but l felt grateful all
the same.
"This long line" went on the sybil
thoughtfully and seriously, sis your line
of life. See how long it is? You will
live to be very old. / wouldn't be sur
prised if you lived to be so, As at least. I
am sure of that
Forty eight does seem very Methu-
selah of an age when one is 16 or there.
abouts.
This lins is your line of head. How
very deep il is and long You are going
TO be very smart some day, Club You
shouldn't be discouraged at anything.
Even if you should be arrested some day
and sent to state prison dou't despair, no
matter how long you have to stay there,
for this line says you ere gong to be great
and good and ycqr life will be prosper
Gus and happy every bit of it,"
81 won't despair" / remarked heroic.
ally. And at that moment don't believe
! would have despaired even if my happy
and prosperous career had been filled by
| the fates TO be passed forever in state
prison.
"You have been bad, Uhub,n continued
the pretty soothsayer, every bad. A little
line under your second finger tells me it
was you who sank the sailboat on the
rocks; beside that, your clothes were all
wet that morning"
/ blushcd deeply but said nothing,
Was it for me to deny what the fates re-
vealed? 1t was not-not then.
81 knew was right" Phillis added.
"hut shall never tell. That wouldn't
be fair considering how have found it
out. But | won't 90 into Your past.
will read the future for You"
Again looked my gratitude while she
went on:
"This lot of lines below your .hum,
and there is such q lot OF them, tell me
you are going to be famous-very fam
! Gus. l almost fear that you won't speak
20 me when you are so great You men
are so uugratefui. Well, don't squeeze
my hand so hard; perhaps you will be
different from yoar sex. III try and be-
lieye you any way. ibis line IN the mid
die of Your hand is the line of fortune.
You are going to be very, very rich, Club.
| wouldn't DO surprised if you could af-
ford to 20 to Europe some day and have
horse aud carriage and own house
when gou grow up
"Will / ever marry ~ / asked.
"Yes this funny little line right below
that hard spot says you are going 90
marry--but you must not be foolish with
your money Club"
"Never mind the money, Philli9, tell
me who I'm going 10 marry" / exclaimed,
growing holder and holder as she grew
more timid
81 can't tell you everything, you fool
ish boy. l haven't got that far in the
book" explained the little maid her eyes
down-cast and with diplomacy worthy
of greater age.
"I'll read that part of my life myself,
Phillis," said 1, with valor / had never
before nor have had since. "Here, don't
go away. can't read it all alone. Keep
hold Of my hand. There. Now let me
take your other hand-only to point out
the lines with, My fingers are too big,
| Jou see. Now I'll tell you who | am
going to marry some day, if she will wait
! for me-"
"Perhaps don't want to know. l don't
care who you are going TO marry. Prob
ably it is Jennie Miggs or some other girI
/ you know at home" interpOsed the sybil,
| prophecies no longer.
"No it isn't Jeuaie Migge,' / retorted
warmly. am going to marry beauti-
| full girl with dark brown eyes and beauti
| ful lips and dark, curly hair. I'm going
to marry the prettiest girl in all the
world. Can't you guess VINO she is, Phil
] lis?"
If my description lacked defniteness
my manner didn't. In snatching her
| hands away from miu9 little Phillis slid
off the bench and derted away from the
scene of my prophecy into the grove.
/ Bat was too earnest seer to be thus
robbed CT my auditor, and in moment
| had overtaken her.
"Will she wait for me, PhiIlis?n l asked,
as put both arms around her to stay her
fight.
SOh, Chubw said she a half hour later,
"iust think of it."
"Of WHAT" asked ], ready TO think Of
anything but able only to think of her.
"Just think how nice it will be when
you are great. We will both be rich to-
gether, won't weF
=
Did l say it was many years ago. 1t
did certainly was mistaken. As | sit at
my desk to-day and look at her pretty,
girlsh picture in its frame Of blue and
gold, it seems only yesterday. Yet IT
must have been longer than that, for |
met Phillis on the street last week She
is over 80 now and has four children.
] Sha - stout and 5reeses in loud cDiore.
She is the wife OF rich Chicago pork
packer, who hasn't any more lines in his
palm than one Of his canvas backed hams.
/ And WE'LL from me fortune, fame
and prosperity are as far away-yes, eyea
further away, like Phillis--then they we're
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