[Gutenberg 16677] • The Chink in the Armour

A small, shiny, pink card lay on the round table in Sylvia Bailey's sitting-room at the Hotel de l'Horloge in Paris. She had become quite accustomed to finding one or more cards-cards from dressmakers, cards from corset-makers, cards from hairdressers-lying on her sitting-room table, but there had never been a card quite like this card. Although it was pink, it looked more like a visiting-card than a tradesman's advertisement, and she took it up with some curiosity. It was inscribed "Madame Cagliostra," and underneath the name were written the words "Diseuse de la Bonne Aventure," and then, in a corner, in very small black letters, the address, "5, Rue Jolie, Montmartre." A fortune-teller's card? What an extraordinary thing!