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CHAPTER FIVE
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Madame Eulalie peered into the crystal that was cupped between her shapely hands. The face that had caused Hamilton Beamish to jettison1 the principles of a lifetime was concentrated and serious.
"The mists begin to clear away!" she murmured.
"Ah!" said Mrs. Waddington. She had been hoping they would.
"There is some one very near to you...."
"A spirit?" said Mrs. Waddington nervously2, casting an apprehensive3 glance over her shoulder. She was never quite sure that something of the sort might not pop out at any moment from a corner of this dim-lit, incense-scented room.
"You misunderstand me," said Madame Eulalie gravely. "I mean that that which is taking shape in the crystal concerns some one very near to you, some near relative."
"Not my husband?" said Mrs. Waddington in a flat voice. A woman, careful with her money, she did not relish4 the idea of handing over ten dollars for visions about Sigsbee H.
"Does your husband's name begin with an M.?"
"No," said Mrs. Waddington, relieved.
"The letter M. seems to be forming itself among the mists."
"I have a stepdaughter, Molly."
"Is she tall and dark?"
"No. Small and fair."
"Then it is she!" said Madame Eulalie. "I see her in a wedding-dress, walking up an aisle5. Her hand is on the arm of a dark man with an eye-glass. Do you know such a person?"
"Lord Hunstanton!"
"I do seem to sense the letter H."
"Lord Hunstanton is a great friend of mine, and devoted6 to Molly. Do you really see her marrying him?"
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