Unhappily, he decides to take the risk. The prediction turns out to be accurate.
The train suddenly comes to a stop and the young man never arrives at his destination. But the story ends happily. An old man, whom Tom befriended on the train, offers him a job in one of his shops. If Tom had stayed at home because of the fortune-teller’s words, he would never have met the old man or got the job. In this case, the strangeness is in the way that the future can turn out