Something which means far more to you even
than your luck!"
The Polish woman smiled rather sadly.
"I wonder what that can be?" she exclaimed.
"It is your life!"
"My life?" echoed Anna. "I do not know that I value my life as much as
you think I do."
"The English have a proverb, Madame, which says: 'A short life and a
merry one.'"
"Can you predict that I shall have, if a short life, then a merry one?"
"Yes," said Madame Cagliostra, "that I can promise you." But there was no
smile on her pale face. "And more, I can predict--if you will only follow
my advice, if you do not leave Paris for, say"--she hesitated a moment,
as if making a silent calculation--"twelve weeks, I can predict you, if
not so happy a life, then a long life and a fairly merry one. Will you
take my advice, Madame?" she went on, almost threateningly. "Believe me,
I do not often offer advice to my clients. It is not my business to do
so. But I should have been a wicked woman had I not done so this time.
That is why I called you back."
"Is it because of something you have seen in the cards that you tender us
this advice?" asked Anna curiously.
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