[CHAPTER XXIV.]
Time drags heavily for all concerned—Success of “Pigs in the Clover”—Sellers is “fixed” for his temperance lecture— Colonel and Mrs. Sellers start for Europe—Interview of Hawkins and Sally—Tracy an impostor

[CHAPTER XXV.]
Telegram: “She’s going to marry the materializee”—Interview between Tracy and Sally—Arrival of the usurping earl—“You can have him if you’ll take him”—A quiet wedding at the Towers—Sellers does not join the party to England—Preparing to furnish climates to order

[APPENDIX.]
The weather in this book

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

[“He was constructing what seemed to be some kind of frail mechanical toy.”]
[“It must try your patience pretty sharply sometimes.”]
[One-armed Pete]
[“Father, I am going to shake hands with Major Hawkins.”]
[“Must he go down in his spectral night dress?”]
[“Clah to goodness it’s de fust time I’ve sot eyes on ’em.”]
[Parker, assistant editor of the Democrat]
[“How do you do?”]
[“Both were so paralyzed with joy.”]
[“It had already happened.”]
[“His thoughts had been far away from these things.”]
[“Fool or no fool, he would grab it.”]
[“No. 5 started a laugh.”]
[Capt. Saltmarsh and brother of the brush]
[Wasted sewer gas]
[“Eastward with that great light transfiguring their faces.”]
[It was a violent case of mutual love at first sight]
[“Time dragged heavily for both, now.”]
[“Oh, my God, she’s kissing it!”]
[“The shady devil had knifed her.”]
[“You an earl’s son! Show me the signs.”]
[“My father!”]
[“Finally there was a quiet wedding at the Towers.”]

EXPLANATORY

The Colonel Mulberry Sellers here re-introduced to the public is the same person who appeared as Eschol Sellers in the first edition of the tale entitled “The Gilded Age,” years ago, and as Beriah Sellers in the subsequent editions of the same book, and finally as Mulberry Sellers in the drama played afterward by John T. Raymond.

The name was changed from Eschol to Beriah to accommodate an Eschol Sellers who rose up out of the vasty deeps of uncharted space and preferred his request—backed by threat of a libel suit—then went his way appeased, and came no more. In the play Beriah had to be dropped to satisfy another member of the race, and Mulberry was substituted in the hope that the objectors would be tired by that time and let it pass unchallenged. So far it has occupied the field in peace; therefore we chance it again, feeling reasonably safe, this time, under shelter of the statute of limitations.

MARK TWAIN.

Hartford, 1891.