Neville took Norma, a widowed former Scranton schoolteacher, to Abdullah, and when she could not grasp him taught her astrology instead; she wept after casting a chart for a businessman from the wrong page of the Ephemerides — a man not born for ten years — yet her conviction brought the promised $100 by Western Union that same evening while Neville sat in her hotel rooms.

Neville, who once believed in astrology himself, taught it years ago to a retired school teacher friend named Norma, who became a professional astrologer; when a breeze blew her papers she drew the wrong chart and told a client his venture would succeed, and the promised $100 check arrived anyway - she remained an astrologer until her death though she knew the charts meant nothing. Norma accidentally drew a chart for a person born ten years later because wind had turned her ephemeris pages, yet her confident reading persuaded the businessman.

Neville was present that evening when a Western Union messenger brought Norma the $100 check the client had promised. Neville says he was in Norma's hotel rooms when a Western Union messenger delivered the promised one-hundred-dollar check that evening.