branch seems to shoot off from this line and runs on to the Mount
of Luna (5-5, Plate X.), it foreshadows restlessness and an intense
craving for excitement. With a weak-looking Line of Mentality it is a
sure sign of a craving for drink and intemperance of all kinds, and at
the point where it breaks through the Line of Life, it generally
indicates death brought on by the intemperance this mark foreshadows.

[Illustration: PLATE X.

THE LINE OF LIFE, THE LINE OF MARS, AND OTHER SIGNS.]

It is generally found on short, thick-set square hands or short hands,
but when found on a long, thin, and narrow palm, it indicates great
vitality and resistance to disease, a nervous, highly-strung, and rather
irritable disposition.

Any broken Life Line with this Line of Mars behind it may indicate great
danger of death where the break appears, but a danger that will be
overcome through the vitality indicated by this Inner Life Line or Line
of Mars.

CHAPTER V

THE LINE OF DESTINY OR FATE

The Line of Destiny, otherwise called the Line of Fate (1-1, Plate XI.)
is naturally one of the most important of the principal lines of the
hand.

Although one may never be able to explain why it is, this line
undoubtedly appears to indicate at least the main events of one's career.

It may be found on the hand even at the moment of birth, clearly
indicating the class of Fate or Destiny that lies in the far distant
future before the individual.

In some cases it may look faint or shadowy, as if the path of Destiny
were not yet clearly defined, while in other instances almost every step
of the road is chiselled out with its milestones of failure or success,
sorrow or joy, as the case may be.

That some human beings seem to be more children of Fate than others has
been admitted by almost all thinkers, but why they should be so has been
the great question that baffles all students of such subjects.

There are some who appear to have no Fate, and others who seem to carve
their Destiny from day to day.

I have seen hundreds of cases where every step of the journey was
indicated from childhood to the grave; others where only the principal
changes in the career were marked in advance. There are, again, others
where nothing seemed decided, and where the events indicated by the Line
of Fate appeared to change from year to year.

The why and wherefore of such things may be impossible to fathom, but
there are so many mysteries in Lif