When a bell ring for anybody, en old marster tell me to--" "Clear out, and settle it in the kitchen!" The noise of the quarreling presently sank to a murmur in the distance, and the earl added: "That's a trouble with old house servants that were your slaves once and have been your personal friends always." "Yes, and members of the family." "Members of the family is just what they become--THE members of the family, in fact.

And sometimes master and mistress of the household.
These two are mighty good and loving and faithful and honest, but hang it, they do just about as they please, they chip into a conversation whenever they want to, and the plain fact is, they ought to be killed." It was a random remark, but it gave him an idea--however, nothing could happen without that result.
"What I wanted, Hawkins, was to send for the family and break the news to them." "O, never mind bothering with the servants, then.

I will go and bring them down." While he was gone, the earl worked his idea.
"Yes," he said to himself, "when I've got the materializing down to a certainty, I will get Hawkins to kill them, and after that they will be under better control.

Without doubt a materialized negro could easily be hypnotized into a state resembling silence.

And this could be made permanent--yes, and also modifiable, at will--sometimes very silent, sometimes turn on more talk, more action, more emotion, according to what you want.