The Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts (Literature) (67 page)

Castle Allerheiligenburg.

29 Satan appears. [circled in pencil]

44. In hell.

The boys go there with him, & find lost friends, who beg for
help. [circled in pencil]

45 [circled in pencil]

Satan on Human Race

46. Make him build a city & drown it with
a bucket of water.

C-4

4

The village toughs pick a row with Satan, & make him fight. [halfcircled in pencil]

S. as horse, dog, cat, &c.

EMPEROR (or Gd. Duke?)

sends for him-has heard of him-is curious to see him. S. contemptuous-won't go. "Let him come here if he wants to see me."
"Arrest him, guard!" They fail. Garrison sent for. It fails. Report to
Vienna. Emperor comes-not in good humor-long journey. Satan
talks plainly to him-laughs at his office & his Church & priests.

49. S's music.

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5

50. PHILIP TRAUM (Satan's public name.

Satan shall proclaim & fully set forth the doctrine of SELFISHNESS
whether it be printable or not.

And the rest of it. Moral Sense &c

64

1100 ducats odd. A (1107) A He will use 200 & put the rest at
interest.

72. Father Peter wears spec(k)s.

73. Marie Lueger, Marget's AinfluentialA pupil

Marget falls in love with S. He plays spinet & speaks of the "Music
of the spheres"

76. Adolf's "ancient priory up the valley."

80. Papas & the rest think the boys are lying about the 1107 ducats.

83. Old Ursula, Peter's cook &c

Group D

These notes, on two half-sheets of Joynson Superfine paper, numbered
consecutively, contain a reworking of Father Peter's trial and what seems
to be an anticipation of the love-rivalry episode. They were probably
written some time after Mark Twain's resumption of work in May 1899
but before June 1900. On the verso are canceled pp. 42-43 of an unidentified manuscript about publishing.

D-1

1

ATell how he displaced Father PeterA
Plan.

Father Adolf (Lueger) summons the Devil to explain about that
money. AGrand time. (night)A

Devil, frightened, says he stole it from 5 sacks one within the other
(sacks produced()) in court) which he kept in a secret hole in his
sleeping room (secret hole produced)-900 of it was given him
2 years before when he went on pil to Rome by a traveler whom he
protected from robbers & raised from the dead temporarily with
St. John's tooth (his own) Adolf was only waiting till he could
([? by]) increase the sum to 1(3)500, when he was going to start a
home for foundlings ("He's had a factory, this long time." "Right
-charity begins at home" "He'll supply the foundlings, too")
,Two strong parties-one for, the other agst Adolf.A

Satan whispers "examine the date"-for the money was siezed the
(first) 2" day & brought into Court. Tableau-none of it is 2 yrs old.
ACrowd goes over to Peter.n Judge is afraid of the Church, & yields
when Adolf wants to inquire further of the Devil.

Does so. Devil confesses he changed date. Wonderful! Crowd goes
back to Adolf.

D-2

2

Satan maddens Adolf-makes fun of him always. Adolf privately
warms up Meidling's jealousy agst Satan

Meidling is the wonder of the region-the Admirable Crichton.
Does all the old sleight of hand tricks & plays spinet-at exhibition
Satan defeats him. Is a boxer & swordsman-Satan defeats him.
Is the strong man-defeated again-finally, seeing Marg is in love
with Satan, in a fury stabs him. S (says, "It seems to me)
3 laughs at him.

Adolf has Satan arrested & condemned to be burnt. They jail him; he comes out; they bum him, he doesn't mind it; they excommunicate him, they banish him he comes back. He is the terror of the place. Marg confesses her love-he despises it-says all human impulses are selfish & despicable. He comprehends them intellectually-no one can realize them but by eating the apple.

Schoolhouse Hill

Notebook Entry, November 1898

This sketch for the adventures of "little Satan, jr" with Huck and
Tom, in St. Petersburg and in hell, immediately precedes in time the
composition of "Schoolhouse Hill," but bears a relationship to the
"Schoolhouse Hill" fragment in only a few particulars. It was written
shortly after 8 November 1898 in Notebook 32.

Story of little Satan, jr, who came to (Petersburg (Hannibal)) went
to school, was popular and greatly liked by (Huck and Tom) who
knew his secret. The others were jealous, and the girls didn't like him
because he smelt of brimstone. AThis is the Admirable CrichtonA He
was always doing miracles-his pals knew they were miracles, the(y)
others thought them mysteries. He is a good little devil; Abut swears,
and breaks the Sabbath.n By and by he is converted, and becomes a
Methodist. and quits miracling. In class meeting he confesses who
he is-is not believed; his new co-religionists turn against him as a
ribald humbug. He believes it is his duty as a Christian to forgive
the people who despitefully use him; thinks it also his X' duty to
hope for his father's pardon by God, and to pray for his papa-tries it;
the church can't stand it. As he does no more miracles, even his
pals(s) fall away and disbelieve in him. When his fortunes and his
miseries are at the worst, his papa arrives in state in a glory of hellfire
and attended by a multitude of old-fashioned and showy fiends-and
then everybody is at the boy-devil's feet at once and want to curry
favor. He is grateful to hug his child to his breast once more, chides
him gently for leaving hell without leave-but it was well enough
to go out and try his hand at business and be competent for his future
sovereignty-finds he has been rejected by Mary Lacy, who took him
for crazy and who is now horribly sorry she didn't jump at the chance,
since she finds that the Holy Family of Hell are not disturbed by the
fire, but only their guests. Satan is glad his boy didn't marry beneath
him-he is arranging with the shade of Pope Alexander VI to marry
him to a descendant-and pending this he has allowed Aleck out on bail; and he is in his present traveling-suit with a vast position Lord
Great Master of the Luggage-and he has another pope along who
carries a ncoldn stove-lid for Satan to sit on to keep from scorching the
furniture. Satan gets drunk at a (wedding) banquet and promises to
forever keep Cold Storage for any that come from that hellish and
hospitable town-Jews included-he is no respecter of sects, if X°'
are-(no applause) fact is he wouldn't give a damn for the average
X°" magnanimities (no applause)