Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-15
AN EPISODE IN Low LIFE.
How an Unfsithful Spouse AbRn-
dons her Lord and Master for
a Gay Lothario.
A Story of Welded Love Unre-
Quilted, and the Tempter's
Triumph.

Triumph.
The Overton Hotel yesterday was the
scene of an episode which produced no
little futter in the servants quarters,
and spiced the fare Of the boarders with
a most inviting dish of gossip. Joseph
Saunders is well known as chief Of the
bell boys. He is a young gent of hand
some face and figure, possessing iasc-.
nations almost equal TO those Of the gay
Lothario Of Cervantes. His presence in
the spacious halls and corridors Of the
hotel never failed to evoke glances Of
admiral from the pretty little walters
in hoops. He was the cynosure OF their
eyes, and knew his power. Among the
female servants was young woman
named Theresa Kelly. She was married,
and her husband-plain, straightforward
Patrick-was also engaged in the estab-
lishmeut. In an evil hour Theresas
eyes fell on the handsome face of the
gay Joseph. The glance was returned,
and the chief of the bell boys acknowl-
edged the presence of the tenderest Of
passions. Theresa forgot the injunction
at the altar to love, honor and obey.
Tho tender eyes of the handsome Joseph
beamed on her, and the memory Of Pat
rick vanished like school boy s dream.
To love and be loved by Joseph, TO be
with him ain sickness and in health J"
to always feel his presence, and look
into his clear brown eyes, was
bliss in its plenitude. Theresa
was a wife, and had vowed to be true to
Patrick so long as ye both shall live. "
But this was long ago, and she had not
then met Joseph-besides Patrick wasn't
at all like Joseph Was this her fault ?
So reasoning she soon yielded TO
Joseph's entreaties to elope. He pic
tured to her home in some sequestered
vale, beyond the reach of the arrows and
sings of calumny, where two fond souls
could blend in one, with Love as their
guiding star. Joseph had witnessed
sIngomar and the Lady of Lyons"
He had listened with an indescribable
thrill to Parthenia's definition of love.
Claude's description of the home to
which he would bear the trusting Pau
line, was yet fresh in his memory. He
had read the Had, and the love of Helen
and Paris was in his visions. To him,
Theresa was Parthenia, Pauline and
Helen to her, he was Ingomar, Claude
and Paris. A wooden horse entered
Troy. He and Theresa would steal
away, and allow the wooden horse Of
grief to enter the Troy of Patrick's
heart 1t was q classic idea, What
cared they for Patrick sorrows, and the
jeers of the world What was the world
to them, or what were they to the world ?
At noon, Joseph and Theresa we're mis-
sing. Where had they gone Soon it was
recollected that they had been much to-
gether of late Patrick FASTENED to his
room, todiscover that Theresa's clothing
and their joint money were gone. Jo-
seph's apartment no longer contained
anything belonging to him. Twelve hun
bred dollars deposited by him in bank
had been drawn. 1t flashed upon Patrick
like o horrid nightmare, that the Theresa
of his heart-the light of his soul-was
false. 1t was useless to weep. Tears
we're of little avail. He would endeavo-
to overtake the guilty fugtives. But love
laughs at abandoned husbands. His
efforts were futile. He traced them to a
depot. There they were lost to him, and
he returned sadder man. He had eX-
changed an incoustant wife for constant
grief. Woman's per6dy had been re-
vealed to him in all its hideousness. The
sunlight in his soul had been obscured by
a horrid shadow
"Anl his soul from out that shadow
That lies floating on the floor
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