A. V. Laider

The narrator and Laider met in a hostel when they were recovering from influenza a year ago. At that time, the narrator and Laider discussed about palmistry. Soon Laider told a story about his mastery of palmistry and found himself going to escape a violent death when he was about 26. Then he met some people in a carriage when he was 27. He looked at their hands and found that 3 of them were supposed to or going to have a violent death.