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"So out of evil good comes," Hamar said, "the maxim for us, remember, is out of evil evil alone must come. What are you going to do to-day, you two?" "Rest!" said Kelson, "I'm tired." "Eat!" said Curtis, "I'm hungry!" "Now look here, this won't do," Hamar remarked, "you've earned your rest, Matt, but you haven't, Ed. You can't go on eating eternally."
"An Englishman will do anything for money, and I am prepared to offer him just twice as much as any one else for your Hall. Do you think he will refuse not he!" "But what on earth's your object! You've ruined me already." "Your daughter!" Hamar cried. "Miss Gladys! I am prepared to go any lengths to get her.
The performance then proceeded, and when it was over, Curtis, Hamar and Kelson, accompanied by six of those of the audience who had volunteered to act as referees, stepped on to the stage.
He was not conscious then of the fire of eyes upon him, cold society stares from Aunt Maria, Hamar and young Radcliffe, as if to say, How dared he presume to expect recognition for doing what was a simple duty! He noted only the genuine heartiness in the face of the father as he thanked him for what he had done. Then, like the practical man of the world that he was, Mr.
"In the face of so much wealth and waste too it seems a bigger sin to starve than to steal a loaf of bread." "The lying and stealing are fixed then," Hamar laughed. "What you have to do, too, is to make the most of every opportunity you can find of doing people present company excepted bad turns." "I don't see how in our present condition we can do any one much harm," Curtis remarked.
"And leave me the watch!" Hamar retorted, with a grim smile. "You are a philanthropist not a storekeeper." "I should leave you nothing!" the Jew laughed. "There's no watch there! See!" and he pointed to the concave surface of the watch-pocket. "I noticed its absence at once. It's been keeping you alive for some days past. I'll give you four dollars on the chain and you may have the book!"
The greatest number of these accidents occurred in Poplar, West Ham, Battersea, and Whitechapel; and at length the working class applicants became so numerous that the Modern Sorcery Company could not cope with them, and were forced to raise their charges. Among other customers, as one might expect, were many militant Suffragettes; whom Hamar and Curtis palmed off on Kelson.
Hamar was correct. "What you say is absolutely true," the gentleman replied; "I had a dog named Peg. I was greatly attached to it, and it was run over in Piccadilly by a motor cyclist. I hate the very sight of a motor bicycle." After a brief interval of awestruck silence a voice from the gallery called out "You are in league with him!"
Hamar exhibited such startling proofs of his power of invisibility, that not only was the whole audience convinced, but from amongst certain prominent members of the Council of the Psychical Research Society, who were attending with the express purpose of unmasking Hamar, two had epileptic fits on the spot, and several, before they could get home, became raving lunatics.
"There is really no end to the devices to which people resort nowadays to make money, but for sheer novelty, nothing, we think, beats this. Three Americans, Messrs. Hamar, Kelson and Curtis, fresh from San Francisco, California, have just bought premises in Cockspur Street, S.W., and set up there as Sorcerers!
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