| Show tricks of eastern wizards Alde Alder rohman aliman the conqueror conquer ar of northern spain according 0 to the moorish Alo orish chronicle c bron icle of the caliphs once enga engaged ad a mast master wizard 11 who introduced j himself by makin making 0 the shadow ot of a dial retreat by 13 1 21 begs an ail exploit which indeed even Puis russian sian facilities of collusion would fail to explain that same court wizard is said to have predicted the issue of the battlo battle of tours the charlea martel affair a full year before his royal patron crossed the Pyre eunes mies but in ia of his sit ait at leaa his prestige pre 0 can calpe je challenged bythe by the record of a modern apeci the clairvoyants lenormand Lenort whose sanctum in III the rue Al madeleine adeleine seems to have rivaled the popularity and almost the emoluments of the delphic oracle foretold col murat that his hia career would end on the throne of a king certainly an of quite classic ambiguity and that his fortune would carry him far beyond the borders of hief his native land she also assured cx jacobia jacob bashere that the ghosts of the past wo ild not rise against him and when talleyrand vis via cited her in the garb of a country curate she outlined his political vich vicissitudes in a way that convinced him that her keen kee i eyes must have penetrated either his disguise or the veil of the future in 1803 napoleon himself could no longer resist the witchery of lier her growing fame and one evening gave her a rendezvous in the library of the tuileries Tuil eries the rising clouds will pass sire said she and the star of your fortune will continue to mount higher and higher for years to come till go on till the ninth year shall witness its dine cline et aares all beyond is dark sire the sibyl herself kept no record of her predictions but the unanimous testimony of her contemporaries seems to leave no ile doubt that what skeptics called her random shots resulted in an amazing number of hits dr felix L oswald in cosmopolitan |
