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The Chink in the Armour

CHAPTER II
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She felt angry, and not a little disgusted.
"You are a foreigner," went on Madame Cagliostra.

Her voice had grown hard and expressionless again.
Sylvia smiled a little satiric smile.
"But though you are a foreigner," cried the fortune-teller with sudden energy, "it is quite possible that you will never go back to your own country! Stop--or, perhaps, I shall say too much! Still if you ever do go back, it will be as a stranger.

That I say with certainty.

And I add that I hope with all my heart that you will live to go back to your own country, Madame!" Sylvia felt a vague, uneasy feeling of oppression, almost of fear, steal over her.

It seemed to her that Madame Cagliostra was looking at her with puzzled, pitying eyes.
The soothsayer again put a fat and not too clean finger down on the upturned face of a card.
"There is something here I do not understand; something which I miss when I look at you as I am now looking at you.


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