Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
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90, magnifcently."
"Have you given it good trial?"
"Well, no, not a frst-rate one. Po1ly's
prejudiced, and she won't let me put it in
here; but I'm PLAYING my cards to get it
adopted in the Presidents house, and then
it'll go-don't you doubt it. shall not
need this one for the present. Washing
ton, you may take it down to some board
ing house and give it a trial if you like. T"
Washington shuddered slightly at the
suggestion; then his face took on dreamy
look and he dropped into trance of thought.
After a little Sellers asked him what he was
grinding in his mental mill
"Well, this Have you got some Sc
cret project in your head which requires
Bank of England back of it to make it sue
ceed?"
The Colonel showed lively astonishment,
and said:
"why, Hawkins, are you mind read
err"
'T? Inever thought of such thing"
''Well, then, how did you happen to drop
onto that idea in this curious fashion? It's
Just mind reading-that's what it is, though
you may not know it. Because have got
private project that requires Bank of Eng
land at its back. How could you divine
that? What was the process? This is in
teresting."
''There wasn't any process A thought
like this happened to slip through my
head by accident. How much would make
you or me comfortable? A hundred
thousand. Yet you are expecting two or
three OF these inventions of yours to
turn out some billions of money, and you
are wanting them to do that If you
wanted SO, 600, 900 I could understand that
its inside the human limits-but bill
lions! That's clear outside the limits. There
must be a definite project back of that
somewhere"
The Earl's interest and surprise aug
menred with every word, and when Haw-
kins finished he said, with strong admira-
tion:
'1t's wonderfully reasoned out, Washing
ton; it certainly is. It shows what think
is quite extraordinary penetration. For
you've hit it; you've driven the center;
you've plugged the bullseye of my dream.
Now I'll tell you the whole thing and you'll
understand it. I don't need to ask you to
keep it to yourself, because you'll see that
the project will prosper all the better for
being kept in the background till the right
time. Have you noticed how many pamph-
lets and books I've got lying around relat-
ing to Russian
Eyes, think most anybody would notice
that-anybody who wasn't dead"
while. That's great and splendid nation,
and deserves to be set free" He paused,
then added in quite matter Of fact way,
"When get this money I'm going to set 1t
free"
"Great guns!"
"Why, what makes you jump like that?"
Dear me, when you are going to drop
remark under mans chair that is likely to
blow him out through the roof, why don't
you put some expression, some force, some
noise into it that will prepare him? You
shouldn't flip out such a gigantic thing as
this in that colorless kind of way. You DO
right again. Tell me all about it. I'm all
interest-yes, and sympathy, too"
"Well, I've looked the ground over, and
concluded that the methods of the Russian
patriots, while good enough considering the
way the boys are hampered, are not the
best; at least, not the quickest. They are
trying to revolutionize Russia from within;
that's pretty slow, you know, and liable to
interruption all the time, and is full of per-
lis for the workers. Do you know how Pc
ter the Great started his army? He didn't
start it on the family premises under the
noses of the Strelitzes; no, he started it
regiment, you know, and he built to that
The first thing the Strelitzes knew, the regi-
ment was an army; their position was
turned, and they had to take walk. just
that little idea made the biggest and worst
of all the despotisms the world has seen.
The same idea can unmake it. I'm going to
prove it. I'm going to get out to one side
and work my scheme the way Peter did,"
"This is mighty interesting, Rossmore.
What is it you are going to do?"
81 am going to buy Siberia and start
republic.
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