New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-12-30
nOn NV soul. professor, this glass

Con my soul, professor, this glass
palace must conceal some treasure
OF which you are very Jealous
With his free hand he seized my
arm, and, as ] kept silent, he leaned
forward as one who listens. Iseemed
to make out some faint, singular
sound, something like the gliding OF
a, reptile through the grass.
ssShe is waiting for me!'' he cried,
in a tone in which 1 could detect an
Unsurpassed terror; Il must go!'
'sWell, if you must, let us go in to-
gether.'' a. gs95>441 ii
He seemed to hesitate still. Then
with a determined gesture, he. NUT
tered: "Come, then; even you could
defend me, if by any chance -
/ He did not complete the sentence.
But as his hand glided over mine,
I felt that it was cold as ice. 81
He led me now. We arrived before
the door of the dollhouse. He drew
a KEY from his pocket, and turned it
in the lock; and, as I stepped for
ward. seeing nothing about mel in the
darkness, he drew me back with sud-
den Violence ~ -.. $500. ....s
"Qn your life" he whispered, edo
not novel" ...~ .....
In spite ofmy assurance, / felt a
vague, unreasoning dread seize upon
me. Again I heard that strange
rustling which had struck me before;
it was a gentle, gliding sound, such
as is made by a paper slipping across
a marble floor. ..
All at once 1 knew not how, Fred
erick caused a glaring, binding light
to illuminate the dollhouse, and
Mortified, my hair rising upon my
head, I fell back against the door, my
hands clutching it's iron bars!
In the centre of the room, in the
midst of an endless variety offantas-
tically formed plants, a being, night
mare, a horror arose before my eyes;
a hydra, a polyp-a Thing no man
could name.
It had the shape ola colossal court,
and from it's surface innumerable arms
reached out, with gluacous- bulbs,
like eyes, at the end of each. The in
ner body seemed green, the arms
we're of reddish purple, and, as they
spread out to those ghoulish eyes,
the blood-red seemed to blend and
mingle to the greenness of q putre-
scent corpse.
My eyes closed involuntarily, and !
felt terrible gripping at my heart;
and still I head that gliding sound,
which OWNED came from those arms
as they reached forth and contracted
within themselves necessarily.
At last, surprised that I had not
been seized by this hideous and mon
strous thing, I mustered up strength
i to look at it. Frederick, who was
now as pale as death, had taken from
the basket a piece OF meat, and, with
infinite precautions, balancing gin,
gerly on the tips of his toes, as if he
feared lest his hand be touched by
those horrible tentacles, he placed thu
raw morsel on the extremity ola clus
; ter of those waving arms. And sud
denly, as if they were of elastic, TIN
arms drew in upon themselves, drag
ging the meat, which was thu
) brought to the shorter arms, which
now saw composed an inner circle
; And all the arms bent in toward tn
? centre, till I could no longer see tn
meat.
) Shuddering and sick at heart,
glanced at Frederick. His forehea,
, was covered with perspiration, hi
teeth chattered-the demOniac brut
was motionless now, ravenous owe
it's monstrous deglutition.
,, "She eats, Titane eats!' he whis
: pered.
U ''Titane?" I repeated after him
:, stupidity. +.
"You do not know, you cannot un
= derstand! Do you not recognize her
. Now, look, see, she is tanned" ant
: all at once I comprehended, say
: this monstrous beast.
For nearly an hour she will be thi
: way" said FREDERICK. "ah, know
, why you come! They think me mad
! But it is not true-mad! IL, wht
g by a miracle of perseverance, by ;
+ master work of selection, have deve]
oped the insectivorous plant Dresser;
q to this formidable SIZE You will
see it, this monster, hold out it's ten
{ tacles to me in an instant empty
: and must nourish it, l must feed it
! Or He glanced about him ap
: prehensive]y, .-.'....~. =. r..s,
: Corr" I repeated. ..-. ... Ill.
= "Listen," said he; you shall knoy
my secret, You know with what ard
or followed the discoveries of Nits
f chke, Warming, and Darwin in tn
study of those strange plants tina
f are intermediate between the vege
! table and animal worlds, which en-
) trap insects, seize them, and feed up
\ on them, slowly absorbing and suck
s ing norishment from them: / wa,
sure of the results of these strang
Q studies, I did not doubt the end 70
an instant, and said to myself tina
the Drosera, the Dionga, the Dros
. ophyllum are-listen to me we'll, nov
d the degenerate posterity OF mon
strous animals, whose terrible form