Must Have It At Any Cost

"Is tliis Mme. Pompom ?" breathlessly inqulred a man who had climbed several flights of stalrs and been admitted into a darkened parlor. "Il is,'' replied the st.-itely personage whom he liad addressed. "The farnous clairvoyant and tortuno. teller ?" "The same." ""Do yon read the mind ?" "'With perfect e. se." "('.■in you företell the future?" "The future holds, no mysterli s Umi 1 cannot nnravel." "Can yira unfold the past V" "The record oí all past things is to me an open hook." "Then," said the caller, feverlBhly, taking froin his po.-kci a handfal of süver, "I wisli you would tri! me what it is that my wlie wanted me to brlng home withoul tail thls evenIng, and name your price. Monev is no object "-Chicago Tribu