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d whirl!" "Let it whirl, it won't do it any harm. Now that matter is all fixed-- leave it alone. I'll get up the company and issue the stock, all in good time. Just leave it in my hands. I judge you don't doubt my ability to work it up for all it is worth." "Indeed I don't. I can say that with truth." "All right, then. That's disposed of. Everything in its turn. We old operators, go by order and system--no helter-skelter business with us. What's the next thing on the docket? The carrying on of the materialization--the bringing it down to date. I will begin on that at once. I think-- "Look here, Rossmore. You didn't lock It in. A hundred to one it has escaped!" "Calm yourself, as to that; don't give yourself any uneasiness." "But why shouldn't it escape?" "Let it, if it wants to? What of it?" "Well, I should consider it a pretty serious calamity." "Why, my dear boy, once in my power, always in my power. It may go and come freely. I can produce it here whenever I want it, just by the exercise of my will." "Well, I am truly glad to hear that, I do assure you." "Yes, I shall give it all the painting it wants to do, and we and the family will make it as comfortable and contented as we can. No occasion to restrain its movements. I hope to persuade it to remain pretty quiet, though, because a materialization which is in a state of arrested development must of necessity be pretty soft and flabby and substanceless, and--er--by the way, I wonder where It comes from?" "How? What do you mean?" The earl pointed significantly--and interrogatively toward the sky. Hawkins started; then settled into deep reflection; finally shook his head sorrowfully and pointed downwards. "What makes you think so, Washington?" "Well, I hardly know, but really you can see, yourself, that he doesn't seem to be pining for his last place." "It's well thought! Soundly deduced. We've done that Thing a favor. But I believe I will pump it a little, in a quiet way, and find out if we are right." "How long is it going to take to finish him off and fetch him down to date, Colonel?" "I wish I knew, but I don't. I am clear knocked out by this new detail-- this unforeseen necessity of working a subject down gradually from his condition of ancestor to his ultimate result as posterity. But I'll make him hump himself, anyway." "Rossmore!" "Yes, dear. We're in the laboratory. Come--Hawkins is here.
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