The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-30

Isn't that true?"
Helen, embarrassed, murmured an
inaudible response.
NOW here are your travel lines.
You'll travel q great deal. and later
in life you will spend much Of your
time abroad. There's something here
that suggests legacy great deal OF
money coming to you later on III
some way it seems connected with the
trips abroad"
Here they were interrupted by some
one beginning to sing.
MARRIED LIFE GALLEY TWO
Mrs. Barton released Helen's hand.
"You have such an interesting palm
she whispered. Some time I should
like to read it more thoroughly
The young woman at the piano was
trilling an operate air. But Helen's
look of rapt attention was someCha
forced, for she was thinking of The
many gratifying things Mrs. Barton
had read in her hand. Yet Mrs. Bar
ton had read several other hands that
evening and from the chance phrases
Helen had overheard, she had been
equally complimentary to them all
So Helen's feeling of self-satisfac-
ton was modified by the thought that
possibly f1attering generalities We're
the main part Of Mrs. BartonS sys-
tenn Of palmistry. Perhaps that ac-
counted for her popularity in drawing
room gatherings.
Later in the evening, after the maid
had brought in the sandwiches and
the claret punch, Mr.. Stevens sug-
gested that Warren have his palm
read.
Helen glanced nervousIy toward
him. She had often heard him de-
nounce palmistry as rot and was
afraid he would make some soothing
remark. However. as Mrs. Barton was
sitting beside him, he restrained his
comment to a brief,
NO, thank you, I'm afraid my
palm wouldn't be interesting"
She Takes Warren's Hand.
"Oh, Mr.. Curtis, I'm sure it would
be most interesting. effused Mrs.
Barton. 81 was noticing it little
while ago as you held glass. Do
let me see it-just for a moment"
Reaching over She took his reluc-
tant hand and spread out the fing>rs.
"Oh, with little gasp of astonish-
ment, what a remarkable hand!"
She bent over it more closely as
though in breathIess interest. ''Why,
I've never seen one So strongly mark
ed. Oh, you must let me read it:
Come over by the light
Her method of attack was effective.
for Warren sat down by the Tight and
held out his hand. The others gath
cred around to listen.
It's an inspirationa1 hand,' declar-
ed Mrs. Barton, 1.-The hand of a born
power. have never seen it So strong
ly developed. And here is your ability
to organize and to control men. You
exert a very strong influence over those
about you. And oh. what persever-
ance-untiring perseverance! Once
you start to do a thing you never give
up till it's accomplished Then,
glancing up at him, isn't that true?''
Yes, I guess that's so,'' smiled War
rem
He tried to say it carelessly, but
Helen, who was following every word
and expression, could see that he was
both pleased and impressed.
Another remarkable thing about
your hand is that beside showing such
unusual strength and character, it's
also the hand Of an artist. You're in
tensely artistic. With hand like that
you might have been a great must
clan or a great artist. Your musical
ability is not particularly marked.
You're intensely fond of music, are
you not?"
Helen knew that Warren cared very
little for music. He had no musical
ability whatever and no discrfmina-
ton: his preference being for the
hand-organ variety. Yet he murmured
an assent to her question.
The group that had gathered around
to listen had already drifted away, for
after all. most people are not inter-
ested in personalities, unless about
themselves. SO Helen was the only
observer, and as she was seated On a
couch back of Warren, he seemed I'M
conscious Of her presence.
Here is very interesting thing"
Mrs. Barton was tracing a line with
her finger; right here comes a sud
den change in your life. I should say,
about the age Of forty or forty-fiye.''
She paused adroitly.
"A change in what way?' asked
Warren, with an unmistakable note of
interest.
His Not an Ordinary One.
In business way" with a faint
smile of satisfaction, for to arouse the
interest Of a Skeptical man is the
ambition OF every feminine palmist.
Il should say your business at that
period would be most successful, and
that it would probably take you much
abroad, for here are marked travel
lines
II suppose you can't tell the nature
of the business asked Warren
'Oh, no, the palm doesn't show that.
You see, it's limited science. There
are many things we cannot tell. But
when hand is SO wonderfully marked
as yours, we can read IN it much more
than in the ordinary palm. For in
stance. this shows your temper-you
see how strongly marked it is. You
have really q very violent temper. but
you have it under perfect control.
should say that you never gave way
to it, that however fierceiy angry you