On Nanking Read, about one bundyed yards. east of Wing On's building and on the same side of the street, there is an inconspicuous shop front. No goods are displayed in the window but there are tables on which are jnkslabs and books chairs are also set around the Often there is quite a company gathered in the shop and, at firet glance, it looks not unlike a doctor's consulting room, And a consulting room it is but the people who sre there for advice not allicted with any of the many ills that flesh is heir to but are in mental trouble or in difficulty of some kind, They have come to spy into the future with the aid of the presiding genius of this some: what shabby apartment who is a Nund-or almost blind-fortune-teller whose name is Wu Gien-gwang, Mr. Wa is one of the most eclebrat~ and one of the most successful practitioners of the science of the occult, Report has it that he has uncanny powers. Tt ix suid that his help is sought by people of other nationalities than the Chinese, though, naturally, his most nunter= ous clients. are' those of his own people. Tus foes vary according the standard of his clients and' the perplexity of the problems. they bring to him for solution. He is reputed to be very wealthy and strange tales are told of the ime mense sums he has received from lents who have been indebted to his predictions for successful busi ness transactions or fortunate *pe~ culations. Another rumour hag it that he hias a pretty taste in wives and has several who hail from different provinces, for Me, Wu bez Hieves that variety is the spice of Wife.
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