Arizona republican., 1918-12-04
C[A|RvOYANT'S
 CAME STILL |SA
 PROFITABLE ONE
Professor" Masters. Psy- chic Marvel, Finds Phoe-
 nix Good Field to Trade
 His "Courses" for Cash

T feel I have important things to tell you" said Professor" Masters yesterday afternoon. as he cordially, | very cordially, greeted a prospective subject who had tinkled the bell of his "parlors'' in a small downtown ho- tel "PrGfessor" Masters, clairvoyant and astrologist, one of a dwindling clan, his big, round face all smiles and his pudgy hands rubbing against each other.
 How the professor knew he hal important things to tell, the visitor couldn't say, but the visit had beel made to satisfy the curiosity to learn whether the grand old graft of the clairvoyant and the psychic marvel was as paying as of old and whether Phoenix was good field.
 Will you wait a few minutes? purred the professor. Evidently there was subject" now inl the inner sanctum. He was doing some business, anyway. Without waiting for reply, the professor motioned the visitor to a sort of reception room and then dis appeared.
 A few minutes later he reappeared and conducted the visitor into an inner room, smaller, darker, oppressiveiy mysterious sanctum, which contained but two chairs and several screens, the latter presumably placed there, possibly to conceal certain objects used in the profession" The visitor found himself in one of the chairs. Whether he was pushed into it or took it of his own accord, he couldn't say. The professor seated himself in the other chair, directly facing the visitor.
 Would you care for a full read ing?" the professor queried, while his eyes appraisingly took in the visitor.
 What are your rates?" the visitor timidly inquired.
 'Ah!" Here the professor launched into complete discussion of his work. He had great psychic power, he said, and was able to help bring about whatever his client most wished. He was able to give complete mental courses" for their troubles and to take away the latter altogether. The price :! Merely a paltry $25 for a full course of treatment, which he would guar antee to bring joy and happiness and success and several other things into the patients life.
 Reduces Price Quickly The visitor hesitated, and in the l hesitation he was thinking of what he could afford to pay for having all his | troubles healed. He was about to say | that the price was a trifle high and, anyway, that he didn't have time that 1 afternoon for a full course.
 1 But the professor was quick to the rescue. From $25 he gracefully slid down the scale to a dollar, and, after 1 getting the word to do it, he settled 1 his short, fat, round body in the chah and grasped the hand of the visitor in his cold and clammy clasp. l Professor" Masters, be it noted, is 1 a first-clas clairvoyant, none of the l cheap tricks for him, such as writing | down on cards the visitors name, The professor scorns such practices. He | does not need the assistance of tricks. All his information is based on occult power, he insists.
 The professor began with an injunc- l tion that the visitor must be careful of his health-he had a very strong body and great mental and physical power, but he must be careful. The ] professor saw an irritation in the wis
 tor's chest that must be looked after promptly. Possibly the deep bronchial | cough which the visitor had purposely 1 sounded upon entering had helped his power" in that direction.
 Some Bad Guesses
 Then the professor branched oui handsomely on the subject of the wis itors family. He was not on very good terms with them, he said, which indeed, was news. There was a friC- tion between them. Closing his eyes he declared that the visitor soon would get his full rights" whatever theS
 were.
 This was interesting, for the visitol never before had known he had anj
 rights" for them to keep from him
 But the professor was off on another
 subject. This time it was money, (
 mysterious check which he soon wa.
 to receive. This also was good news
 During all this time the professor did not once stoop so low as to tel
 the visitor his name, where he wa!
 from, or tell him anything about hi. present occupation. Such things wer'
 just too simple for the master psychic
 mind to bother with. And the visito4 was having too good time to thini of such small items
 Some One Else in Mind
 The professor further divined, how ever, that his guest was not averse tt obtaining a position. This though
 was very apparently based on the as sumption that if the visitor wer, working he would not be there at tha
 time in the afternoon. Professor Mas
 ters further assured the visitor that il
 a short time he would get a splendi'
 offer of a position. The visitor, h
 said was to be very successful man
 ager of men; he was to have creativ
 talent and to have his name befor
 the public. Would the visitor prefe any definite line of work to take uI , a profession or a trade or anything? [ So far the reading had progresse : rather fast, and with little difficultj : the visitor not bothering to mentio S the professors wrong guesses. Ther f were too many of them to fool witi - The psychic powers were certainl n thinking of the wrong pan in wha e they told the great clairVoyant. No :. the professor hastened to take up tf d subject of love-the visitor seeming f be of the age the experienced profeS
 sor knew thought great deal on ths
 subject. The visitor tried to welcon
 the new subject with suitable eager
 ness.
 Strong on Love
 Professor Masters, after deep cor
 sultation with his occult advisors, ar | nounced there were many women the life of his visitor. The visit' loved often, it seemed. though ger erally with passing interest.
 The professor dwelt long and lo'
 ingly on the subject of love. In fac /, declared the masterful Professor Ma U ters, the visitor without a doubt wou marry some woman he had either m <, in the past or whom he would me
 in the future
 Having made this safe statemer