The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-30

freddy, please don't. I'm hard
hit. | know IA an ass, but L can t
help gitr I will find out about this
girr If j can. Can't you remember
where you got the Photograph
mo, upon my honor can t. Some
where near Westbourne GROVE, /
fancy. was dining in Bayswater, i
know, but | can't be sure" -i-r
: 81 may have it, 1 supposeY -.
Certainly. But if you take my
advice, Frank, you'll put it init the
fire." ISL
And [ placed the carte carefully in
my. pocketbook. Now, good bye.
Iii look you up again to mP rrow!H
-%'>All right. But where are you Oh
to in sueh & hurry 49,
It w ell !" said slowly l thlpk l
shalE take walk in the nelgn Dor
hood of Westbourne Grove
mentary rcjofnder,sand then u went.
away. ~ 81 7i=1 3
- -. Iffll--5VEsrBoURNE GROVE. ID IA
$ Westbourne Grove as host Lon
doners know, IS not, TO be qnd .erstood
in q sylvan or rnrai sense for but few
strees grace the Pleasant Bays water
thbrs6ghfare which goes by that
1T is a sort of miniature Re-
Sgeut Street, many Of the shops being
offshoots from parent estab lishments
there; and it istlle faNorite lounge of
the Afemale part of the BaysBater
popi1l a don ayswater. as every body
knows, Is given MP almost Entirely to
eekheltiers. retired Indian officers,
and jews it is a sort of>netr opo4itan
Asia Minor;;TgED abgfF four o'clock
on fine afternoon all that is fairest
of the female and post1sraelitish Of
the male sex nromenade NJ estb ourne
Grove. %
3 Native Iadian. nursess NAV be seen
in charge of pFeamb ulator4 full of in
childteH. in7alids are
dragged about 40 bathebaiTs by. the
most maIevolents looking NrnffiAns In
existence. maiden effadIes stalk on
with an evangelical and 5traet-distrib-
iuting air ftheA BIRTHS b EGurate may be
seen amb 6ng along as III concious of
the mint us with)wbich the 'imagina-
ton of his female Yotaries invest him;
Jews, hideeus In aspect, with their
eyes meeting, their hair hanging over
their coat scdlars,t Bedizenedl with
false iewelFY, and asTnbk king unsavOFy
cigars, leer all CHRISTIAN girls; the
Bayswateg swell, q distinct type, very
weak about the legs, hangs on TO his
eye glass, apd-nods' to a passing ac-
auaintance 4 a ladies' school-sone
ten hapless3 maideps is marched
sternly past the ATTRACTION of shop
windows, fuIl E9f-b3nnets and ear
rings; the patenPuE is hidden by
waving dresses, aRaf the air is redo
lent of scent, whiteRTbm every slipping
shoulder the edrl, called by the pro
lane 'tF6lloE- meslads," waves IN the
Summer breeze. III --...
Such is Westbourne Grove; and for
this promenade i Started when | left
Teddy Mayhartf's rooms, with the
precious photograph in my posses
sion. ~ Ntkt anna.
/ When 4 got INTO { Regent Street. I
hailed hanson, aud was soon speed
ing westward toward the grove. rapt
rIu contemplation ofmy belovedIp photo
graph, aud with no very defnite. idea
of what eOurse,I was going to pursue
when [ reaehedsniy destination. -o...-
'nA They had gIyensme no clue what
ever to tie photogEaRher; there would
be, ,dozenfn the Grove, and L was
not even sure that bis purchase had
not beeutmadein some street In the
vicinity ;Hso, dhat to lake the picture
round to every photographer in the
neighborhoOd seemed likely to be a
very hopeless business, which would
lead to no satisfactory result. 1t was
probable, L thought, that the portrait
had been privately, taken, a I'D that
possibly few c6pIed had remained
In the photographers hands. There
was some chance, then, that, finding
the picture had sold. he might, it, he
possessed another, have exposed it
for sale. / accordingly dismissed my
cab at the end OF Queens Road and
commenced an investigation of the
photographers in the Grove.
Il T.si TO BE CONTINUED.