New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12


INNENTOR--I am far from testing,
and only once in all my life have
taughed-the moment when | saw that
my invention was a success.
JESTER ('cith Dated breath And
can you really make me beautiful?
INVENTOR-Ycu will soon be con-
WINGED. You will feel as if newborn.
JESTER (sti'ved to the highest pitcla)
i will be beautiful, Ny bunch will
dissolve and my height will increase,
My mouth will be shorn of it's terror,
Fair will be. Yes, fair! And then am
fool no longer. Have you beheld a
fair one spat upon the face? Have YOU
beheld handsome one chastised with
the lash? Have you heard Of one that's
fair suffering ugly treatment? Oh,
will be fair-freed Of folly-and then /.
too, will kiss a pretty maiden. Kiss-a
~-pretty-maiden! AT the window, wide
open to nights sheltering darkness.
bosom to bosom pressed tight ITO the
LoGies)-Hey! Who of you will wish
to be carried off by me? long to be
abducted by you all, Handsome will
be, and as to brains, I've always.
KING--He has. gone mad. Have him
quoted
JESTER (tops asoay)-I will be
handsome! I will be fair! Bow, WOW,
WOW.
AN OLD COVRTIER-And can you
really bring back youth?
INvENTOR-I have already an
swered that question for one of the la
dies. I can make you young. And as
have said--nly invention will perhaps
bring life everlasting.
OLD COURTIER-Why your "per
haps"?
1NVENTOR-How can l be certain?
Life everlasting alone can prove it. I
assure only that Of which l am certain.
CHANCELLOR-You said before
that it can also kill.
INVENTOR-You find in it what VOL,
seek. 1t has the power to give eternal
llte and is at the same time a deadly
weapon. In war you will be able, with
It's aid, to annihilate the Kings enc
mics as if by sunstroke.
M1NISTER-Can it also transmute
stone and sand into gold?
INVENTOR-How strange. That
selfsame claim was on my tongue. You
took the very words from out nv mouth.
Yes; my device most surely has that
power
K1NG-Have you it with you here?
INVENTOR-No, and yes. No. be-
cause it is not here in completed form
Yes, because it is in my brain and
ready to be set up at any moment.
KING-When will you set it up for
me?
INVENTOR - When your majesty
will consent to lend me aid.
KING-4And how can l lend you aid?
1NVENTOR-My King, the Lord has
beheld my yearning for publication and
sent me this invention. He was good
to me. He heard my prayers. The
earth, all earth, will bless my name
forever; my name will blaze like shin
ing star, eteTnally, upon the armament
of humanity. But, like the nebulous
tail of glorious comet, there will trail
after me the shame and disgrace of
seven evil generations. All the boons
that will bring through my invention
will not suffice to extinguish the spot
of my brilliant sun. But l do not wish
to carry the spot upon me; it must be
wiped out in its entirety l wish to
stand before the world unstained. You
can help me-
KlNG-I have already asked you,
How? How would you be cleansed?
INVENTOR-Through union with tho
highest purity.
KING-And that is?
INVENTOR-Your daughter. "a stir
among the guests.)
KING-What?
INVENTOR-I want your daughter
for my WIFE
PRINCESS (Ctutchimg tho Prince,
with an outcry).
PRlNCE-(Seises tho hilt of his
sWord.)
INVENTOR Perhaps in generations
yet to come humanity will endow me with
another ancestry. Ashamed to own
foul soul as a savior, it will ascribe new
parentage to me, of pure, unsullied line
age. But as Kings son-in-law should
at once attain that which otherwise l
must await for generations. Your royal
splendor would at once illumine my en-
tire pedigree and cause my father and
mother to be forgotten.
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