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Whenever a thing is large & bragable, “Sho, you ought to see it in Sirius.”

Whenever it is “advanced” Lord, you ought to see it in (get that name from Lady Duff Gordon.)

These snubs make me tired,—& Doan too.

I visit those places with 44.

44 hunts maj magician constantly with miracles—Satan comes—he takes the credit at first; then too late tries to get out of it.

He is burned at the stake (it is 44 in disguise).

Appears again—is destroyed in various ways, keeps coming to life.

150, gay & cheery

That ass.

severe & mild, cold & warm,

straight & crooked, so that no one

could bear his gaze.

Beelze 2-year cholera

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Jesus! said Father Adolf. in top left corner

A drunken, armored knight.

A dethroned King in the cellar.

Pi.

Hell box.

Towel.

Strap oil.

Barty contributes money and is repaid.

I am told on and my trouble begins.

I explain to him what to do without speaking.

I shirked going to his room that night.

Some one propagates the suspicion that I am his friend.

2

Fischer and others begin to lean toward him, and I venture to say a good word to them for him.

There should have been a carouse in 44's honor that night.

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A conspiracy is brewing during several days against the master.

I pick up the facts from Fischer & Co.

The idea is to ruin him, oust him and put some one in his place.

44 is persecuted in all ways the first day.

At last Blume strikes him.

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That is more than Fischer can stand.

He resents it.

That classes him with 44's friend, and the count begins to divide.

I privately work upon Fischer through Mar.

Some time Mar. and Maria will begin to be attracted toward 44.

Father Peter and his niece must come in here somewhere.

And perhaps the conspirators will purposely or by accident betray the printing shop to Father Adolf.

4

Getting used to being in the opposition.

And finding a sort of support in Fischer.

I lose the bulk of my fears, and consort with 44 by night but not by day.

I am astonished to find that he is quite willing to kill a good man.

Thinks it would be doing him a favor.

But spares Ernest—and all vicious men.

Because they did not make themselves.

And are not to blame for what they are and do.

They are entitled to large compassion.

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I always find it impossible to budge him from that position.

Or get him to feel an insult or an injury.

The master's influence wanes little by little.

Perhaps by and by the magician will take the head of the table.

He is heavy hearted.

And finds solace in teaching 44.

44 explains what one's Dream-Self is.

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Maria and her mother are feeling strong enough now.

To try again to oust Mar. and

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her mother.

44 will take a hand.

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1.

Heinrich Stein, the master, was portly, of a grave and dignified carriage, with a large & benevolent face & calm deep eyes—a patient man whose temper could stand much before it broke. His head was bald, with a valance of silky white hair hanging around it, his face was clean shaven, his raiment was good & fine, but not rich. He was a scholar, & a dreamer & thinker, & loved learning & study, & would have submerged his mind all the days & nights in his books & been pleasantly & peacefully unconscious of his surroundings, if God had been willing. His complexion was younger than his hair; he was four or five years short of sixty.

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A large part of his surroundings consisted of his wife. She was well along in life, and was long & lean & flat-breasted, & had an active & vicious tongue & a diligent & devilish spirit, & more religion than was good for her, considering the quality of it. She hungered for money, & believed there was a treasure hid in the black deeps of the castle somewhere; & between fretting & sweating about that & trying to bring sinners nearer to God where any fell in her way she was able to fill up her time and save her life from getting uninteresting & her soul from getting mouldy. There was old tradition for the treasure, and the word of

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Balthasar Hoffman thereto. He had come from a great long way off, & had brought a great reputation with him, which he concealed fro in our family the best he could, for he had no more ambition to be burnt by the Church than another. He lived with us

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on light salary & board, & worked the constellations for the treasure. He had an easy berth & was not likely to lose his job if the constellations held out, for it was Frau Stein that hired him; & her faith in him, as in all things she had at heart, was of the staying kind. Inside the walls, where was safety, he clothed himself as Egyptians and magicians should, & moved stately, robed in black velvet starred & mooned & velveted & cometed & sun'd with the symbols of his trade done in silver, & on his head a conical tower with like symbols glinting from it. When he at intervals went outside he left his business suit behind, with good discretion, & went dressed like anybody else & looking the Christian etc. Very naturally we were all afraid of him—abjectly so, I suppose I may say—though

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Ernest Wasserman professed that he wasn't, etc. etc.

To return to Frau Stein. This masterly devil was the master's second wife, & before that she had been the widow Vogel. She had brought into the family a young thing by her first marriage, & this girl was now seventeen and a blister, so to speak; for she was a second edition of her mother—just plain galley-proof, neither revised nor corrected, full of turned letters, wrong fonts, outs & doubles, as we say in the printing-shop—in a word pi, etc. Moses Haas said that whenever she took up an en-quad fact, just watch her and you would see her try and cram it in where there wasn't room for a 4-m space; & she'd do it, too, if she had to take the sheep's-foot to it. That daughter kept the name she was born to—Marie Vogel; it was her mother's preference & her own. Both were

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Frau Stein—Maria Stein Vogel “Stein” reinstated—Marget Regen

proud of it, without any reason, etc. Maria MT's italics had plenty of energy & vivacity & tongue, & was shapely enough but not pretty, barring her eyes, which had all kinds of fire in them, according to

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the mood of the moment—opal-fire, fox-fire, hell-f., & the rest. She hadn't any fear, broadly speaking. Perhaps she had none at all, except for Satan, & ghosts, & witches & the priest & the magician, & a sort of fear of God in the dark, & the lightning when she had been blaspheming & hadn't time to get in aves enough to square-up & cash-in. She ha despised Marget Regen & her mother the master's niece & dependent & bedridden moth sister. She loved Gustav Fischer who did reciprocate & hated all the rest.

Marget Regen was Maria's age—17. She was lithe & graceful & trim-built as a fish, & she was a blue-eyed blonde, & soft & sweet & innocent & shrinking & winning

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& gentle & beautiful; just a vision for the eyes, worshipful, MT's cancellation adorable, enchanting; but that wasn't the hive for her. She was a kitten in a menagerie.

She was a second edition of what her mother had been at her age. That poor meek mother! Yonder she lay had lain, partially paralysed, ever since her brother my master had brought her eagerly there a dear & lovely young widow 15 years before, etc. MT's emphasis

Next was old Katrina. She was cook & housekeeper; her forebears had served the master's people & none else for 3 or 4 generations; she was 60 & served the master all his life, from the time she was a little girl & he a swaddled baby. She was erect, straight, 6 feet high, with the port & stride of a grenadier; she was independent & masterful, & her fears were limited to the supernatural. She believed that she could whip anybody on the place, & would have considered an invitation a favor. As far as her

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allegiance went stretched, she paid it with affection & reverence, but it did not extend beyond “her family”—the master, his sister &

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Marget. She regarded Frau Vogel Stein & Maria as aliens & intruders, & was frank about saying so.

She had under her 2 strapping young wenches—Sara & Duffles (a nickname), and a manservant, Jacob, & a porter, Fritz. & others

Next, we have the printing force!

Adam Binks, 60 years old, learned bachelor, proof-reader, poor, disappointed, surly.

Hans Katzenyammer, 36, printer, huge, strong, freckled, red-headed, rough. When drunk, quarrelsome. Drunk when opportunity offered.

Moses Haas, 28, printer; a looker-out for himself; likely to say acid things about people & to people; take him all around, not a pleasant character.

Barty Langbein, 15; cripple; general-utility lad; sunny spirit; affectionate; could play the fiddle.

Ernest Wasserman, 17, apprentice; braggart, malicious, hateful, coward, liar, cruel, underhanded, treacherous.

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He and Moses had a sort of half-fondness for each other, which was natural, they having one or more traits in common, down among the lower grades of traits.

Gustav Fischer, 27, printer; large, well built, shapely & muscular; quiet, brave, kindly, a good disposition, just & fair; a slow temper to ignite, but a reliable burner when well going. He was about as much out of place as was Marget. He was the best man of them all, & deserved to be in better company.

Last of all comes August Feldner, 16, 'prentice. This is myself.

The stranger: No. 44, New series 864,962.

Martin v. Giesbach

Elisabeth v. Arnim

Emil Schwarz.

D-1

DISAPPEARANCE of the maid discovered.

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Hurry the public betrothal before she publishes the scandal.

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DISAPPEARANCE of me or and my Duplicate discovered.

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Great excitement in castle.

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Betrothal stops.

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Distress is killing Marget's mother.

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Rumor of 3 murders

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The bodies found. Close all exits. Search. They find the murderer (44) with trinkets on him. Arrest him. Torture confession out of him. Behead him—he picks up head, puts

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it in basket & walks off. While they stare, claps it on & becomes magician & disappears in thunder & lightning.

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Big reputation.

44 invisible says it was I. The real magician will appear now.

FUNERALS

—the cat is around.

No consecrated ground—they lacked absolution. Buried with 44—same ceremonies at night. Katrina & others grieve for cat & others. (How long since K has seen this boy?)

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The 3 murdered found again. Funerals.

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The 3 found again. Funerals.

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Stein declares he will pay no more funerals. They stop.

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Upon reflection I find my way is not clear, for certainly Martin is another & not I. It is he that is Lisbet's husband.

I must renounce that marriage & win her in my own person. By & by.

Visit other centuries to ease my heart. Marry there, by compulsion

44 shows me dream-wonders & music of spheres, but I can't describe them, there being nothing to compare them with.

D-4

P.O. DEPT. doesn't use MT wrote ‘used’ dreams so much now, they use the late French King's post.

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Katrina has dream?

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Shall her implorations restore 44? I think so

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44 must turn to animals.

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Have him be a mountebank with trained animals—they talk together.

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Adolf arrest the lot

D-5

INDULGENCE—murder produces one signed by Adolf, but he points out it only saves his soul, not his life. Court doubts, but yields. GHOST-NIGHT—castle full of spectres & wandering lights. Distant groans & cries—flight & pursuit, noiseless.

The murderer is I or my Duplicate, they can't tell which; I confess I did it but I won't tell which. The indulgence names the Duplicate & 44 claims to be he & that a duplicate is not human & not amenable to law. Court is uncertain.

D-6

The emperor said:

“They blame an emperor for his appetite for notice & praise: Look at God!”

His Majesty old Henry MMMMMDCXXII of savage The Blasphemous/Uncultured said—“Yes, I am fond of what the books call praises, processions, notice, attentions, reverence, fuss & feathers. Vanities? Are they? There was never a living creature nor even a god that didn't like them.” this paragraph canceled with a single line

D-7

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Kings and all. circled All men are so very very little, so microscopically little, not alone to the eye of God but when they

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searchingly & honestly examine them-selves it seems foolish to go thro the pretence of detecting differences & distinctions.

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Let your condition be what it may, you will provide yourself with the same amount of unhappiness required by your born disposition —king & tramp alike.

D-9

3B

Pity—don't scoff at & despise & hate the race. It is sw victim of a swindle, & the arbitrary character of its nature makes it blameless. It has no responsibility.

(Both talk gently & earnestly.)

D-10

You wouldn't like everybody to admire applaud “admire” reinstated you?

Well . . . . no.

You wouldn't like anybody to admire all sides of your character?

Why?

Nemmine. Tell you

Wouldn't you be satisfied if the “best people” admired as much of your character & conduct as you do?

NO—(& that is honest.)

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D-11

B DREAM-LIFE

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A funeral;

accident;

loss of wealth;

“ “ wife & child

Crossed in love—

It bites, it cuts, it tears,—but keep heart, it is not real.

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There is but one person in the Universe—you are he, & you are merely a wandering Thought.

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1st. Cat passes through—she will bring news.

44 says Those boys are out of date in the matter of conveying messages—go by Fr.ench King's post, now. I remember the fat & the lean kine.

The dreams are all right enough, but the art of interpreting is lost. 1500 yr ago they were getting to do it so badly it was considered better to depend on augurs—do you know about those?

Yes,

chicken-guts & other naturally intelligent sources of prophecy,

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recognising that when guts can't prophecy it is no use for Ezekiel to go into the business.

Prophecy went out with the chicken guts.

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Everything at standstill because of the missing 3.

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Search for them, must be

missing 3 days

By indulgence from Adolf:

Conspiracy to massacre the Duplicates. by the strikers.

Cat overhears

Have to have signs passwords grips so as to tell who are Duplicates.

Cat reports them to August, & he, invisible, betrays them to Duplicates.

cat sidelined in margin

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Now is my chance, if I can only win her in my own name—

Take father Peter's advice—he says Martin is quite another person —“green goods”

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Then courts Marget—she is drawn to him, & he may be Emil, she doesn't know which he is but she her feelings tell her he is not the one. Yes, she concedes, he would answer all practical purposes; yet, lacking the essential one—love—no good. Sorry, but N. G. One parting kiss to meet no more. Take a hatful. I will not take advantage of your generosity—2 will do.

The murdering is to happen that night—which is Ghost-Night—Adolf & other exorcisors there, to be pestered by 44

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DI BRONTOSAUR, all bones—“will be more effective that way” —prances around, reaches into 2d story windows—

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“Here comes Carnegie!”—it is the P Carnegio-Pittsburghio-Brontosoriass”—

They have an old love-grudge of tertiary times—they race all over town & region & fight, scaring everybody to death—

Summons St George from the past, Don Quixotte from the future & try to interest a tournament, but the boys ruther not—(“it's Sunday”).

44 thrashes the creatures (as the magician) leads them meekly, they kneel to a cardinal the minute they see him, & the cardinal's little boys takes a ride

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Remember, Katrina cannot like the magician, he burnt her boy—she crosses herself & attacks him whenever they meet—& she is the only one who dares defy him.

She's been waiting around ever since that tragedy, with a long carving-knife.

She thinks he has instigated the murders—she is so bitter against him that she attributes to him every evil that happens.

1. Adam? He is part of the dream. page torn him by agreeing with his fad.

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2. Father o’ de Brotherhood? ‘Sho! Cant ever get him to say anything but that.

3. Ad? Enthusiastic. He is the head-criminal—perpetuate his name.

4. Agree with his fad.

5. Full of his trouble; cares nothing for Ad. Peters the inventor.

Adm's fad for life's failures came from wife.

Jemmy a wholesome spirit—practical, like x x poetic like x x x & both, like x x x x & literary by inheritance from that uncle?

Martha is doctor, like Mrs. G. She is in deep sympathy with the Broken Reeds.

Poem “The Derelict.”

George Flinders written in left margin

The squawkestrelle & penola

Jemmy apparently no fad to work upon. Shall it turn out that he has one himself?—his love for her—& it operates by making him give up the monument scheme.

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1. The intellectual & placid & sane-looking man whose foible is that life & God & the universe is a dream & he the only person in it—not a person, but a homeless & silly thought wandering forever in space.

2. The negro whitewasher (of the Brotherhood of Man) whose daughter (nurse) was lynched for poisoning the white child—it turns out she was innocent.

3. The N. E. farmer whose young daughter was beguiled away by . . . . he found her after 7 months' search, dying of starvation —had lived on 2 cans of condensed milk per week—afraid to go to her father who had never taken her mother's interest in the children, he being absorbed in the heathen. He rails at God, who could have saved her & didn't.

4. George Francis Train-looking man who lost wife & his 4 children in a week when was was 30. At 74 is glad they were taken—they escaped life. “God's only valuable gift to man—death.” Has almost completed extermination-scheme—oxygen.

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5 Young policeman refused $10,000 bribe & reported it. Is admired (with words) but is privately believed to be “a little off.” Is little by little neglected, then dismissed. He laments his foolish act; the other policeman took the $10,000 & is now Chief of Police.