The American Claimant

s my soul

opped from the Colon

t is

ed, the noblest of his illustrious race-gon

ho

right Llanover Marjoribanks Sellers Viscount

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rue-too

he

t ni

he

here he arrived from England

don't

burne

t ho

New G

! And have we lo

th

Arm P

forgot all about hi

e him! We can better afford to lose a millio

e halls of the hotel in his underclothing and apparently out of his head with fright, and as he would listen to no one

friends so near. I wish we hadn't come away

oked up and

r. He was uncertain before. W

him?

material

rifle with me. Do you me

sure as you are sitt

shaking it. I was perishing, and you have put new

ld-in the circumstances. And of course certain duties have devolved upon me

mitten with this new family affliction. Of course you

er's heir out of the way. But you'll forgive that momentary weakness, and forget it. Don't ever remember it against me that Mulberry Sellers was once mean enough to think the thought that I was thinking. I'll mat

ellers-the other had a

hing I keep forgetting to mention-a matter

is t

ust escape-not a hint. To say nothing of how my wife and daughter-high-strung, sensitiv

you spoke, for I'm not naturally discre

t man he had ever seen, in the matter of impressing into his service every modern convenience the moment it was invented, and always keeping breast to breast with the drum major in the great work of material civilization, he forsoo

do. I told him that in theory a dry battery was just a curled darling and no mistake, but when it come to practice, sho!-and here's the result. Was I right? W

e that you always know everything about everything. If that man had known you as I know yo

ing, Marse

e Sellers

Marse Washingto

t Marse Washi

'! who did r

ssmore r

lung up his han

e en forgit dat name agin! Com

y ar

ine to give you I's gwine down sull

s yo' nigger las' year

When a bell ring for anybod

d settle it in

ce, and the earl added: "That's a trouble with old house servants th

embers of t

ss of the household. These two are mighty good and loving and faithful and honest, but hang it, they do just about

ave him an idea-however, nothing

as to send for the family

th the servants, then. I wi

one, the earl

hout doubt a materialized negro could easily be hypnotized into a state resembling silence. And this could be made permanent-yes, and also modifiable, at will-sometime

vited, and fell to brushing and dusting around, for they perceived that there

ar sharpness was about to be inflicted upon their hearts-hearts still sore from a like hurt, still lamenting a like lo

entations with the eloquent sincerity and simplicity native to their race. Gwendolen was touched, and the romantic side of her nature was strongly wrought upon. She said that such a nature as that young man's was rarely and truly noble, and nearly perfect; and that with nobility of birth added it was entirely perfect

the body, Rossmor

eral. It must be one of them, bu

you goin

entify one of them and send i

you ever see

wendol

you iden

are recognizable. I'll send his father

mind was made up and there was a chance for him to appear upon that sad scene down y

, papa? W

ght be