Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-06-08
JOHN S. BENDER, Editor and Publisher


currency that passes here. You must
write me three columns of the best liter
airy matter every day. those are our terms
for this room. We have rooms higher
up which rent for less. Some go as low
as paragraph. This is a four-column
room usually, but you can have it for
three"
Was the fellow laughing at me? His
countenance was perfectly serious the
whole time he was speaking. He talked
as deliberately as if re had been simple
hotel clerk talking to a traveller, who
was about pricing rooms. The whole
thing struck me so comically that could
not refrain smile. I determined to car
ry the thing out in the Counts owR
vein.
MEALS are of course included ?"
said inquiringly. s
Certainly, and served in your own
room."
Il don't think the apartment dear"
continued, inspecting my chamber with
critical eye. IN take it,"
VERY good; and l saw gleam OF
gratifed malice shoot through the Counts
great blue goggles.
Now" said |, perhaps you will in
form me, Count Goloptious, why few
moments since you were So anxious to
get rid of me, and why now you so tran
quilly consent to my remaining an Inmate
of the Hotel de Coup d'Gilg"
a have my reasons" said the Count,
mysteriously. "You have now taken a
room in the Hotel de Coup d'Gil; you
will never quit # unless with my.consent
The Eye shall watch you, the Ear shall
hear you. the Hands shall detain you, the
Mouths shall betray YOU work is hence
forth your portion. Your brain is my
property; you shall spin it out as the
spider his web, until you spin out your
life with it. / have lien on your intel
lect. There is ore of my professions
which omitted in the catalogue which
gave you on our first meeting,-I am q
Publisher
VIII.-THE BLOND HEAD.
The last speech of the Counts ! con-
fess, stunned me. He was then pub
Usher. /, who for years had been anx-
iously keeping my individuality as an au-
thor intact, who had been strenuously
avoiding the vortex of the literary whirl-
pool of which the publisher is the centre,
who had resisted, successfully, the alb
sorbing process by which that profession
succeeds in sucking the vitals out of the
literary man, BOW suddenly found myseli
on the outer edge of the m..elstrom, slow
ly but surely revolving towards the cen
trail funnel which was to swallow me.
An anticipation of unknown misfor-
tunes seemed 10 overwhclm me. There
was something sternly prophetic in the
last tones Of Goloptious's voice. lie
seemed TO have had no turtle in his throat
for several days. lie was harsh and stri-
dent.
| determined to consult with the Blond
Head in my extremity. II would, at least,
be consolation to me to gaze into those
wondrous blue eyes, to bask in the sun
shine of that luminous hair.
raised my window, and hummed bar
of Come Gentl. In moment the adj
joining window was raised, and out came
the Blond Head. The likeBess to the
weather-toy existed no longer: both our
heads were out together.
You have seen Goloptious," said the
Blond Head. What did he says''
Excuse me from continuing the con.
versation just at this moment" replied.
Il have forgotten something"
+ had. The Ear and the Eye were in
full play,-one watching, the other lis
tening. Such witnesses must be disposed
of, i'll was to hold any secre, conversa-
ton with Rosamond- | retired therefore
into my chamber again, and set TO work
20 deliberately magnetic the eye. That
organ did not seem to relish the opera
ton at all, but it had no resource. In a
few moments the film oversnread it, and
ii closed. But what was to be done with
the ear: could not magnetic that. If,
like the king in Hamlet, had only lit
tie poison to pour into it, might deafcn
r it forever Or, like the sailors of Ulys-
ses, when passing the island of the Sirens
-ah. Ulysses that was the idea. Stop
up the ear with wax. My bedroom can
die was not all burned out To appro-
pirate portion of that luminary, soften
|, 1t In my hands, and plaster it over the
auricular organ on my door was the work
of few moments. 1t was triumph OF
strategy. Both my enchanted guardians
completely en;rapped, and by what sim
/ pie means.
, now resumed my cut-ofwindow con.
versation with Rosamcnd with feeling
of perfect security.
Il have seen Goloptious," l said, in
reply to her previous question, "and am
now boarder in the Hotel de. Coup
| GGn"
: "Great heavens, then you are lostr
, exclaimed Rosamond, shaking her cloudy
curls at me. Tes
"Lost. How so?"
"Simply that you are the slave of Col.
optious. He will live on your brains, un-
til every fibre is dried up You will be-
come a mental atrophy,-aiid alas
! worse"
"What do you mean? Explain, foi
! Heavens sake You mystify me-" ~
Il cannot explain. But We must en-
, deavor to escape. You are ingenious and
bold l saw that by the manner in which
! you overcame the Sentinel Eye by mag
netism. This hotel is den of enchant.
ments. I have been confined here fol-
over q year.. Ny, profession is that Of q
sculptor, and I have been forced to model
all those demon hands and mouths and
-h.,,11srU Ia fht<l<l lu