Her Words Came True (1911)

John Hudson is skeptical as regards the truth of foretelling the future, while the olive-skinned gypsy pulls, rubs and twists his hand. No sooner has his hand landed in madam's jeweled fingers, than a regular circuit of blood-curdling prophecies tend to produce a frosty temperature. "You will have trouble over some papers." "You will he sought after by a dark woman." "You will meet royalty." "You will take a journey." "On the 17th you will have a disappointment." No sooner had he emerged from the tent, he hailed a newsie for an evening journal. The boy failed to return the change from a silver dollar. The boy gets away. This is the trouble over papers the fortune teller predicted. The dark woman: a negress with a basket of washing on her head enters. Royalty: a card game, four kings. The journey: waylaid and put in a cab by two men. In the next scene he is dumped out of the cab and left. He is seen to have a black eye, watch and chain gone. The Disappointment: Swearing vengeance, Hudson seeks out the gypsy, enters bravely and picking up a large club is about to attack the fortune teller when two large men rise up, one of them does the old gag of reaching quickly to his pistol pocket and pulling out a handkerchief. On his first move Hudson drops his club and makes a quick run for safer quarters, murmuring to himself, "Never again."

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