title: Fortune-Telling With Numbers: Knowing Yourself and Your Fate Through Numerology
author: Rodney Davies
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  # THE ADVENTURE OF THE INQUISITIVE AMERICAN
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Grant Allen
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  
  IN one week I had multiplied my capital two hundred and
  
  
  forty-fold! I left London with twopence in the world; I
  
  
  quitted Schlangenbad with two pounds in pocket.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  'There's a splendid turn-over!' I thought to myself. 'If
  
  
  this luck holds, at the same rate, I shall have made four
  
  
  hundred and eighty pounds by Tuesday next, and I may look
  
  
  forward to being a Barney Barnato by Christmas.' For I had
  
  
  taken high mathematical honours at Cambridge, and if there
  
  
  is anything on earth on which I pride myself, it is my firm
  
  
  grasp of the principle of ratios.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Still, in spite of this brilliant financial prospect, a
  
  
  budding Klondike, I went away from the little Spa on the
  
  
  flanks of the Taunus with a heavy heart. I had grown quite
  
  
  to like dear, virulent, fidgety old Lady Georgina; and 