The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-01-17
CHAPTER VIII,

God bless my soul. Hawkins"
The morning paper dropped from the Col
| onels nerveless grasp.
What is it,"
Hos gone-thc bright. the young. the
gifted. the noblest OF his ilustrious race
gone Conc up In flames and unimaginable
glory"
"Who?'
My precious precious young knsman-
Kirkcudbricht Hanover Marioribanks Sellers
Viscount Berkeley son and heir Of usurpinE
Rossmore."
No"
Its true-too true"
"When:'
Last nght?"
"where?"
Right here in Washington. where he ar
rived from England last night. the papers
say
You don't say!'
Hotel burned down."
What hotel?'
The new Gadsby.''
"Oh. my goodness! And have We lost both
Of them?''
Both who?'
"One.arm Pete"
Oh great guns. forgot all about him. Oh.
l hope not"
nope "Sils SnOutu say. w. VIC can
spare him. We can better afford To lose mil
lion viscounts than our only support and
stay"
They searched the paper diligently and were
appalled, to find that one-armed man had
been seen flying along ono OF the halls OF the
hotel in his undertaking and apparently ont
OF his head with fright. and as he would listen
to no one and persisted in making for stair
| way which would carry him to certain death.
his ease was given over as hopeless ono.
- Poor fellow sighed Hawkins "anI he
had friends so near. l wish we hadn't come
away from there-may be we could have saved
him"
The Earl looked up and said calmly:
- His being dead doesn't matter. He was I'M
certain before. We've got him. sure. this
time"
Got him? Howl
81 will materializs him.
Rossmore. don't-don't tribe with me- Do
you mean that? Can you do It p
- can do it just as sure as you arc sitting
there. And will"
Give me your hand and let me have the
comfort OF shaking it. l wns perishing. and
you have nut new life into mo- Get at 1t. oh.
get at 1t right away"
1T will take a little time. Hawkins. but
there's no hurry. none In the world-in the cir
SuIuStduceo. Huu VI COuTSe ceItdlu JULIUS nave
devnIved upon me now which necessarily
clulm my first attention. THIS poor young
nobleman--"
Why. yes. am sorry for my heartlossness.
and you. smitten with this new family Attic
ton OF course you must materialiZe him first
Il quite understand that"
"l-I-well. wasn't meaning inst that: but
why. what am thinking OF! OF course I
must materialize him. Oh. Hawkins. selfish
ness is the bottom trait In human nature;
was only thinking that now. with the usurpers
heir out Of the way. But you'll forgive that
monlentary weakness and forget 1t. Don't
ever remember 1t against mo. that Mulberry
Sellers was once mean enough to think the
thought that was thinking. I'll materialize
him-I will. on my honor-and I'll do It wero
he thousand heirs jammsd into one. and
stretching in solid rank from here to the
stolen estates OF Rossmore. and barring the
road forever to the rghtful earl"'
There spoke the real sellers-the other had
a false ring, old friend"
Hawkins. my boy. 1t lust occurs to me-a
thing | keep forgetting to mention-a matter
that we've got to be mighty careful about
What is that"
I'VE must keep absolutely still about these
materializatlons. Mind. not hint OF them
must escape-not q hint. TO say nothing OF
how my wife and daug htsr-h 18Th strung, SEN
sitive organizations-mig feel about them.
the negroes wouldn't stay on the place min.
Ute"
That's true. they wouldn't It's woll you
spoke. for I'm not naturally discreet with my
tongue when Pm not warned"
Sellers reached ont and touched bell-button
In the wall set his eye upon the rear door and
waited: touched 1t again and waited. and Just
AS Hawkins was remarking admiringly that
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