Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-04-29

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deliberately displayed" as follows:
Your Fate 10 Written In the Heavens
Consult the
STAR.MASTER
Past, Present and Future are Open
Books to His Mystic Gaze-Be
Guided Alright In
BUSINESS, LOVE AND HEALTH
| Thousands to Whom He Has Pointed
Out the Way Of the Stars Bless
Him For His Aid.
Consultation by appointment.
PRESTON JAX
Suite n Mystic Block, 10 Royal Street
, Mrs. Blair glanced at the announce
ment.
Some of my friends have been to
| him." she said. For time he was
rather a fad"
But you haven't ever consulted
him. yourself?"
"No, indeed"
THAT is we'll. I want you to 80
there with me today
ITO that charlatan? Why, Professor
Kent. thought you were scientific
man."
Translate science down to its
simplest in Saxon English said Kent.
1T would be knowing / suppose.
Exactly When think man knows
something which wish to know but
do not know, try to possess myself
of his knowledge. whether he is
microscopic, astrologer, or tinsmith,
To that extent I am scientist"
"And you expect the stars to tell
us something about my lost topazes?''
"They seem to have had some In
fluence on the career of the original
owner" said Kent, with his half smile
"And one star has already lighted up
the beginning Of the trail for me-"
| 81 can't understand your motives
she said "But know that can trust
you. When do you wish me to go?"
'T have an appointment for us al
high noon"
AS the clock struck twelve, Kent
i and Mrs. Blair passed from the broad
MONDAY glare Of the street into the
tempered darkness Of strange apart.
ment. It was hung about with black
cloths, and lighted by the effulgence
of an artificial half-moon and several
planets, contrived, Kent conjectured,
Of isinglass set into the fabric, with
arc lights behind them. A soft-footed
servitor, clad throughout in black, ap.
peared from nowhere, provided chairs,
set a pitcher Of water beside them,
and vanished silently. A faint, heavy,
but not unpleasant odor as OF incense,
lowered in the air. The moon waxed
slowly in brightness, illumining the
two figures.
"very we'll fixed up whispered
Kent to his companion. "The
astrologer Is now looking US over
In fact, at that moment, a con
templating and estimating eye was
fixed upon them from a dead" star
in the farther wall. The eye beheld q
girl whose delicate but vivid loneliness
was undimmed by the grisly trappings
OF mourning which Christian civiliza
ton has borrowed from barbarism to
belle it's own Christianity withal
rested a moment, and passed, with
| more scrutiny, to her companion.
Preston Jax did not. as a rule. re
ceive more than one client at time
Police witnesses travel In pairs, and
| the Star-master was of q suspicious
nature. Only an extraordinary fee, and
! the cultured languor Of the voice
which requested the appointment over
the telephone, had induced him to re
lax his rule. Now, however, his un
| easiness was appeased. He beheld q
| gentleman clad in such apparel as
| never police spy nor investigating
agent wore; rather puzzling swell
ness" (the term Is culled from Mr.
! Jax's envious thoughts), since 1t ap
| reared to be individual, without be
ing in any particular conspicuous. Mr.
! Jax. an adept in extracting informa
/! ton, wondered II he could persuade
| the visitor to disclose his tailor to the
! stars: for he was, himself. in light
vocational moments, at Atlantic City
+! and in the Waldorf-Astoria, something
of a dresser. One point. however
| the connoisseurship Of the Star-mastel
could hardly approve: the monocle
displayed in his visitors left eye
though it was reassuring to his pro
fessional Judgment. The visitor was
obviously tight"
Quitting his peep-hole, the Star
master pressed button. Strains Of
music, soft and sourceless, filled the
air (from a phonograph muffled In
rugs). The moon glow paled q little
| There was a soft rustic and fluctua
/ ton OF wall draperies In the apart
ment. The light waxed. The Star
master stood before his visitors.
! They behelf a man OF undis
tinguished size and form, eked out by
splendid pomposity Of manner. To
this his garb contributed. All the signs
OF the zodiac had lent magnificence
to the long, black, loose robe with
| gaping sleeves, which he wore. Mrs
! Blair noted with vague interest that
! It was all hand embroidered.
/ Pale and hard the face rose from
this somber and gorgeous appareling
lit was remarkable face. small. calm
and conpacted OF muscles. Muscles
pumped out the broad cheeks;