Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-17

had been seen flying. along one of the hall
of the hotel in his underclothing and ap
parently out OF his head with fright, and AZ
he would listen to no one and persisted IL
making for a stairway which would carry
him to certain death, his case was given
over as a hopeless one.
"Poor fellow" sighed Hawkins; land he
had friends so near. I wish we hadn't come
away from there-maybe we could have
saved him.
The Earl looked up and said calmly:
'tHis being dead doesn't matter. He was
uncertain before. We've got him, sure, THU
time"
SCOT him? How?"
81 will materialize him."
"Rossmore, don't-don't trife with me.
Do you mean that? Can you do it?'
81 can do it, just as sure as you are sit
ting there. And will"
."Give me your hand and let me have the
comfort of shaking it, as I was perishing,
and you have put new life into me-, Get at
it, oh, get at it right away"
'It will take little time, Hawkins, but
there's no hurry, none in the world-in the
circumstances. And, of course, certain
duties have devolved upon me now, which
necessarily claim my first attention. This
poor young noDleman-
"Why, yes, am sorry for my heartless-
ness, and you, smitten with this new family
affliction. OF course you must materialize
him frst-I quite understand that"
'T-I-well, wasn't meaning just that,
but-whv, what am 1 thinking of! OF
course I must materialize him. Oh, Haw-
kins, selfshness is the bottom trait in
human nature; I was only thinking that
now, with the usurper's heir out of the
way. But you'll forgive that momentary
weakness and forget it. Don't ever re-
member it against me, that Mulberry
Sellers was once mean enough to think the
thought that was thinking. I'll material
ize him-I will, on nv honor-and I'd do it
we're he thousand heirs jammed into one,
and stretching in solid rank from here to
the stolen estates of Rossmore, and barring
the road forever to the rightful earl !"
"There spoke the real Sellers-the other
had a false ring, old friend"
"Hawkins, my boy, it just occurs to me
thing I kept forgetting to mention-a mat
ter that we've got to be mighty careful
about
'What is that?"
eve must keep absolutely still about
these materializations. Mind, not hint of
them must escape-not q hint. To say
nothing of how my wife and daughter
high-strung. sensitive organiZations-might
feel about them, the negroes wouldn't stay
on the place minute"
''That's true, they wouldn't. It's well
you spoke, for I'm not naturally discreet
with my tongue when I'm not warned"
Sellers reached out and touched a bell
button in the wall, set his eve upon the
rear door and waited; touched it again and
waited, and just as Hawkins was remark
ing admiringly that the Colonel was the
most progressive and most alert man he had
ever seen, In the matter of impressing into
his service every modern convenience the
moment it was invented, and always keep
ing breast 10 breast with the drum major in
the great work of material civilization, he
torsook the button (Which hadn't any wire
attached to it), rang a vast dinner bell
which stood on the table, and remarked that
he had tried that new-fangled dry battery,
now, to his entire satisfaction, and had got
enough of it, and added:
'Nothing would do Graham Bell but I
must try it; said the mere fact of my trying
it-would secure public confidence and get
it chance to show what it could do. told
him that in theory dry battery was just a
curled darling. and no mistake, but when it
came to practice, sho!-and here's the re-
suit. Was 1 right2 What should you say,
Washington Hawkins? You've seen me
try that button twice. Was Iright?-that' 8
the idea. Did know what was talking
about or didn't I?'
"Well, you know how I feel about you,
Colonel Sellers, and always have felt. 1t
seems to me that you always know every
thing about everything. If that man had
known you as l know you, he would have
taken your Judgment at the start and
dropped his dry battery where it was"
"Did you ring, Marse Sellers?"
''No, Marse Sellers didn't"
"Den it was you, Marse Washington. rse
heah, sub. +"
mo, it wasn't Marse Washington,
either"
"De good lan,' who did ring her den?'
"Lord Rossmore rang itp
The old negro flung up his hands and ex-
claimed:
''Blame my skin if hsin't gone en- forgit
dat name agin! Come heah, Jinny-run
heah, honey"
jimmy arrived
''You take dish yer order de lord gwine
to give you. rs gwine down suller and
study dat name tell 1 git it,
II take de order! Who's yo' niger las
year? De bell rung for you.''
'Dat don't make no difference. When a
bell ring for anybody, en- old marster tell
me to-
"Gear out, and settle it in the kitcheni"
The noise of the quarreling presently
sank to q murmur in the distance and the
Earl added: 'That's trouble with old
house servants that were your slaves once
and have been your personal friends
always"
Eyes, and members of the family"
hars of Tho family io 81 rh.& 49,,
become-the members of the family, in fact.
And sometimes master and mistress of the
household. These two are mighty good and
loving and faithful and honest, but, hang it,
they do just about as they please; they chip
into q conversation whenever they want to,
and the plain fact is they ought to be
killed"
It was random remark, but it gave him
IN idea-however, nothing could happen
without that result.
"What wanted, Hawkins, was to send
for the family and break the news to them"
''Oh, never mind bothering with the ser
wants then. 1 will 60 and bring them
down"
While he was gone the earl worked his
idea.
"Yes," he said to himself, "when I've
got the materializing down to a certainty,
I will get Hawkins to kill them, and, after
that they will be under better control.
Without doubt materialized negro could
easily be hypnotized into state resembling
silence And this could be made perma-
nent-yes, and also modifable, at will
sometimes very silent, sometimes turn on
more talk, more action, more emotion, ac-
cording to what you want. It's prime,
good idea Make it adjustable-with a
screv or somethinp