Yet I never called
him up again. He is happy. Let him stay.
Indeed, my acquaintance with the spirit world might have
ended at that point but for the good offices, once more,
of my Friend.
"You find your great-grandfather a little slow, a little
dull?" he said. "Well, then, if you want brains, power,
energy, why not call up some of the spirits of the great
men, some of the leading men, for instance, of your
great-grandfather's time?"
"You've said it!" I exclaimed. "I'll call up Napoleon
Bonaparte."
I hurried to the agency.
"Is it possible," I asked, "for me to call up the Emperor
Napoleon and talk to him?"
Possible? Certainly. It appeared that nothing was easier.
In the case of Napoleon Bonaparte the nominal fee had to
be ten dollars in place of five; but it seemed to me
that, if Great-grandfather cost five, Napoleon Bonaparte
at ten was cheapness itself.
"Will it take long to get him?" I asked anxiously.
"We'll send out a tracer for him right away," they said.
Like Great-grandfather, Napoleon was punctual. That I
will say for him. If in any way I think less of Napoleon
Bonaparte now than I did, let me at least admit that a
more punctual, obliging, willing man I never talked with.
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