 While attending the Milton Boarding School , Booth met a Gypsy fortune @-@ teller who read his palm and pronounced a grim destiny , telling Booth he would have a grand but short life , doomed to die young and " meeting a bad end " . His sister recalled that Booth wrote down the palm @-@ reader 's prediction , showed it to his family and others , and often discussed its portents in moments of melancholy , in later years . 
