Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-02-15

;ymmetricaliy arranged CT tbs brass
:ods in ;lha window; Gult the fog had
;ilyerei the glass with is mos
breath. aLl lie elGid Distinguish only
| confused Silhouette: fhen, taking
heroic resolution. he turned on his
heel and went. with deliberate step,
% the inn Of the Tvo-Headed Eagle.
That might there was numerous
company az the Two-Iieaded Eagle;
The guests were of the most mixed
description The Two-iIeaded Eagle
Vas one Of these blessed cellars ceIe-
DRAFTED by HOFFMAN, vith steps so
worn, so greasy, so slippery, that you
IAN not put your foot upon the hrst
Jne without at orca finding yourself
1t the bottom, between n pot OF beer
and measure of new wine.
Through the thick cloud Of smoke
lhalt almost choked and blinded you
at first, all sorts of strange figures
appeared after few minutes. There
we're Walla chians with their cafetan
and astrakhan caps; Servians, Hum
garians, with long, black musuaches
1aparisoned with dolmans and EN-
broidery: BChemians, with coppery
compleXionS, narrow foreheads, and
arched noses; honest Germans with
laced coats; Tartars with eyes turn'
ID up like those of Chinese-au lmag-
mable populations. The East was
represented by a fat Turk coiled up
in a corner, and peacefully smoking
L pipe of Moldavian cherry-wood,
with a bowl of red clay and a mouth
piece of yellow amber.
Everybody was eating and drink
ing; the drink consisted of strong
beer and mixture of new red wine
With old white wine; the food, OF
slices of cold veal, ham, or pastry.
Round the tables turned unceasing-
y one of those long German waltZes
which produce upon northern imag-
,nations the same effect as hashish
and opium on the Orientals; the
couples passed and repasssd rapidly;
the women, almost fainting with
pleasure om the arms of their cayal-
ers, to the sounds of a waltz. swept
away with their skirts che clouds OF
smoke and refreshed the faces of the
drinkers. At the counter some Nor
accan improvisators. accompanied
Oy a player upon the guzFG, were re-
citing a sort of dramatic complaint
which seemed greatly to divert
lozen strange figures. clothed =
sheepskin and coifed with tarboukhs.
Heinrich went to the end of the eel
lar, and sat al a table where were
already seated three or four person
ages of joyous mien and merry hui
nor.
"Ah, Heinrich!" cried the eldest of
he band; mind yourself, my
friends; foenum habet i'm cornu. You
lnow you had truly dia boIical look
the other night; you almost fright
sned me. Who would think that
Heinrich, who drinks beer as we do,
and who does not draw back before
/ slice of cold nam, could put on such
Tenomous, wicked. and s2rdcnic airs,
and that with single gesture he can
make a whole theater shIdder?"
"Eh! why THAI is the reason Helm
rich is a great artist. a Sublime COM
edian. There is no glory in playing
4 role that is i'm your character; the
triumph, for n ccquette, is to excel
IN playing ingenues.
Heinrich sat down moiesily, called
for a large glass OF mixed wine, and
the conversation continued OH the
same subject. On all sides it was ad,
miration and compliments.
"Ah! if the great Wolfgang Goethe
had seen you" said one.
"Show us your feet" said another;
L am sure you have Il forked hoof."
The other drinkers, attracted by
these eXcIamations, looked at Helm
81 oil y l,o
opportunity of examining closely so
remarkable a man. The young men
who had formerly known Heinrich at
the university, and whose names he
hardly knew, came up 10 him and
shook him cordially by the hand, as
if they had been his intimate friends.
The prettiest valseuses as they passed
shot at him the tendersst chances of
their blue and velvety eyes.
One man only, seated at a neigh
boring table, seemed to take no part
in tine general enthusiasm: his head
thrown backward. he was drumming
|distractediy with his fingers on the
crown of hrs hat a military march,
and from time to time he uttered a
sort OF ''numph," singuIarly dubious.
The aspect OF this man was of the
strangest, although he was dressed
like an honest burgher @; Vienna, en-
joying modest fortune; hrs gray
eyes were shaded with green tints,
and shot out pnosphoric lights like
rne eyes of a cat. When his pale, fiat
lips parted, they showed two rows of
teeth very whfte, very sharp. and very
wide apart, IF the most cannibal and
ferooious aspect; his long nails, shin
ing and curved, took a vague appear
ance of claws; but that hysiognomy
appeared only by rapid flashes; to the
eye that watched him fiXe dly, his face
rapidly resumed the bourgeois and
debOnair appearance of d retired vi
ennese merchant, and you felt aston
ished that you could have suspected
of villainy and deviltry face so vul-
| gar and trivial.
Internally Heinrich was shocked al
the Indifference of the man. That
disdainful silence took away their
value from the panegyrics which his
noisy companions lav.shed uDon him
1t was the s.Ience of an old and ex.
perienced connoisseur, who does not
allow himself to be deceived by ap
pearances.
! Atmayer, the youngest of the com
pany, the warmest admirer OF Helm
j rich, could not endure this Goodness
and addressing the strange man, al
tt taking him TO bear witness to IN
assertion that he advanced, he said:
rs it not so, sir, no actor has evel
played the role of Mephis:opheles bet