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If it wasn't for the continental clothes in the painting there would be a good deal of resemblance yes, a very great deal." "It is my portrait," said Mr. Kilbright, his voice trembling as he spoke. "It was painted by Tatlow Munson in the winter of seventeen eighty, in payment for my surveying a large tract of land north of the town, he having no money to otherwise compensate me.
I was not prepared to make any answer on this point, but I went away with a firm resolution to protect Amos Kilbright in the full enjoyment of his reassumed physical existence, if the power of law, or any other power, could do it. The next morning Mr. Corbridge called on me at my office.
Such conduct was not only mean, but criminal in its nature, and if there was no law against it, one ought to be made. Kilbright then proceeded to tell me how happy he had been when Corbridge informed him that his dematerialization had been indefinitely postponed, and that I had consented to take him into my service.
"I greatly desire that that may be done soon," answered Kilbright, "but first I wish to establish myself in some means of livelihood, so that he may not think that I come to him for maintenance." Of course it was not possible for me to turn this man away and tell him I had nothing for him to do, and therefore I must devise employment for him.
As to what you said in your letter in regard to invoking the law against us, I attach no weight whatever to that threat." "You will find you have made a great mistake," said I, angrily, "when I have brought the law to bear upon you, which now I shall not delay to do." "You will merely bring ridicule upon yourself," he said, "if you assert that the man you wish to protect is Amos Kilbright.
We acknowledged the force of his remarks, and all went into the church. Three days after the departure of Mr. and Mrs. Kilbright on their wedding tour, my wife received a letter from Dr. Hildstein, written by himself from New York, but addressed in the handwriting of Mr. Corbridge.
Colesworthy, "but as to that man Corbridge, I believe he would have kept poor Mr. Kilbright dancing backward and forward between this world and the other as long as a dollar could be made out of him. But there is only one way in which he can do us any harm now, and that is by materializing the first Mrs. Kilbright; but, knowing us, as he now does, I don't believe he will ever try that."
After an hour's talk, during which my wife asked a great many questions which I should never have thought of, we went upstairs and left Kilbright to his work. "His story is a most wonderful one," said Mrs. Colesworthy, "but I don't believe he is a materialized spirit, because the thing is impossible.
Kilbright?" "Not at all," said he. "We shall carry out our plan before our subject marries. If you choose to hurry up matters and have the wedding take place before we are ready to proceed with our dematerializing process, we shall be very sorry, but the blame must rest on you. You should have had consideration enough for all parties to prevent any such complication as an engagement to marry.
The leader and principal worker of the men who were about to give a series of spiritual manifestations in our town was Mr. Corbridge, a man of middle-age with a large head and earnest visage. When I spoke to him of Amos Kilbright he was very much annoyed. "So he has been talking to you," he said, "and after all the warnings I gave him! Well, he does that sort of thing at his own risk!"
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