Chapter Fourteen
"Hadji, I have made you your favorite," said Jeannie, giving Hadji a bowl.
"Ah, Chicken soup, you remembered Jeannie," he said. "Thank you for calling me at the quiet time of the month. I am not due in Savannah for an appointment in four or five hours. From now until then I will be glad to help you."
"Thank you Hadji" said Jeannie.
"Thanks a lot," added Colonel Nelson.
"Mmmn," said Hadji. "I can not believe you chose him over Abdul the Camel driver."
"I love him, Hadji," said Jeannie. "And my son Anthony Junior, whom I also love, has vanished and I cannot find him."
"He is mortal, is he not? Did you try blinking?"
"Oh Hadji, I have tried blinking. He is no longer mortal, my sister has made him a genie, and he now trapped in his bottle."
"Ah, you have had a great stroke of luck. I never anticipated him becoming a genie. But, Jeannie, I can restore him to you. All I must do is look in my crystal ball to find him, his bottle, and his master."
Hadji blinked, another earthquake occurred, a gong sounded, and his crystal ball appeared. Hadji shrieked, and the picture became clear. Jeannie and Colonel Nelson looked inside the crystal ball.
It was in some French villa. There was a green bottle on a Louis XIV table, in an ornately decorated room. There was a cute French maid dusting the room. Roger Healey came in. "Alright Tony, you can come out of your bottle" he said.
Slowly, Tony Nelson Junior smoked out the bottle and materialized. He was pale, and could barely stand up. "What is it this time?" he asked wearily.
"I've decided besides my ten billion dollars, my chateau in Calais, my villa, my Castle in Bavaria, and my palace in Japan, and my South African diamond mines, I wish for a four funnel steamship, ten Gold mines in the Klondike, the Australian outback, and Peru, each. I also wish for four blonds, three red heads, and two brunettes who are crazy about me. I also want, I also wish, for a pineapple plantation, two ski resorts in the Rockies, and my own personal island, with my own castle and staff, and airport, and harbor, of course, in the south Pacific. Oh, I also wish for a fifteen course meal. After that, I wish you to return to your bottle."
"Yeah, sure, Roger, whatever you want." Tony Nelson Junior looked beat. Through a long series of what looked like very uncomfortable blinks, he granted the wishes. The South Pacific Island wish nearly finished him, he turned green and his left foot disappeared as it was granted. With the fifteen course meal, he fainted dead away, disappeared in smoke, and went automatically back into the bottle. Roger Jr quickly stopped it up.
"Ooh," said Jeannie angrily.
"He ought to learn how to nod and fold his arms when his blinks. It is less stressful that way. At any rate that dog of a master he has would tire out a full fledged genie, let alone a young one like him." said Hadji, thoughtfully.
"He looks very sick," said Jeannie, very concerned.
"I am afraid," said Hadji, "that under the stress he's been put under, it is only a matter of time before he is disappears forever into limbo."
"Why doesn't he just turn Roger into a frog, and get out of there," asked Colonel Nelson angrily. "When I get my hands on Roger Junior I'll . . . ."
"He can not," said Hadji. "Jeannie, your sister put an obedience potion on the bottle. Your son cannot so much as travel home, use a crystal ball, or even one of those telephone's without his master's permission. If he is to be rescued from that son of a jackal, it is up to you."
He blinked up a little white bottle. "Spray this potion on his bottle, and the obedience spell will be lifted," Hadji added.
"Thank you Hadji."
Hadji was looking in his crystal ball again. "Do you remember when I foretold you would have two children if you married your dog of a master."
"Yes Hadji."
"Because you married three years after I told you this, your daughter did not arrive when I expected her. Jeannie, you will have a daughter in the couple of years, and she will be a genie from birth. She will need no coaching."
"Great," said Colonel Nelson glumly.
"Ah, you are beginning to see the light," said Hadji.
"Wait a minute, didn't you also say Jeannie would lose her powers when she married me."
"Ah, yes, that would of been so. However, as a favor to Jeannie, I made it so she would keep her powers, even after marrying you."
"Thank you, Hadji," said Jeannie again, now impatient to leave, and go to France.
"It was a pleasure, you are my favorite genie, and an adorable child." Hadji disappeared amongst an earthquake, a gong, and a large cloud of smoke.