The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-02-28

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MORNING. LARK---A CHARMIsG YouEa LADY
DOES 4 FASHIONABLE Bo6gpfSG-HorsE. -
but ehert time ago, on one of those lovely
days which have graced the present winter,
young lady in rich and elegant dress,
and with gems flashing from her ears and
from her fingers, arrived in this city.
There was soft and pensive grace and q
cast OF thought upon her face, but to one
versed in physiognomy there was to be
seen hidden beneath all this deep and
nrtful cunning. She had all the appear
| ance of being the representative of much
wealth. She came here, as she stated, to
await the arrival of an aunt, who was
shortly expected, and who was coming on
purpose to make some large investments in
real estate, IN which she was to be inte-
rested in connection with her brother. who
was to accompany the aunt.
one wanted to engage rooms in private
ana fashionable boarding house, aud for
that purpose made the round of the most
aristocratic houses of this character until
she finally selected one upon Fourth street.
ny way Of recommendation to her land
lady she made the above statement regard
ing her visit to this city, and also exhibited
several letters purporting to be from influ-
ential families Of the highest standing in
st. Louis. This appeared to satisfy the
unsuspicious landlady, and she at once as
signed the young lady to the best room in
the house, which had all the conyeniences
essentially necessary for even the most
tender plant of the aristocratic shoot.
The young lady, who was exceedingly
fascinating, could not but attract the young
men OF the house-dapper clerks, statesmen
In wholesale houses, book-keepers, and
such as usually seek genteel society in
houses Of this character. She soon became
acquainted with all, and, of course, with
her accomplishments, q great fayorite in
the house.
She had, in addition to her varied accom-
plishments, beautiful contralto voice, and
"warbled at eventide" 80 sweetly her wild
wood notes that there was no resisting her.
One of the enraptured young men de-
clared that she sung with the sweetness of
the morning lark. She was perfect Gree
in her fascinating manners, and her bril-
liant conversation, piquant airs, and silvery
laugh, soon made captive every heart.
The landlady was delighted at the happy
state of affairs. The young men, instead
of spending their evening hours abroad,
found too much enjoyment in her society to
venture out. Music, and dance, and cards,
alternated, and 80 the time passed along
most entrancingly.
All the men we're in love with her, and
one, late partner in q Wholesale house,
was on the point of making declaration to
her, when the sunshine which had so brill
liantly entered the house with the hand
some young lady all at once became dark
ened, and he was lifted from his air-castles
down to terra tirmo with most lugubrious
| countenance.
1t was on the morning of dark and dis
NAL day when the boardcrs arose and as
certained that their money and valuablos
had taken wings unto themselves snd
Gone where the woodblne tTineth.
Even the landlady wept over the loss of u
splendid diamond-mounted gold watch.
But the dashing and progressing beau
| ty that had made so much music in the
house, what of her. She certainly must
have suffered in common with the others
The landlady, desiring to ascertain the
fact, few to her room, and knocking at the
door, received no answer. Again she
knocked, and again no response. A faint
suspicion began to creep into her mind, and
as the suspicion grew, the more nervous
she became and the louder she knocked
until finally she was satisfied there was nc
| living person in the room. A step-ladder
was then procured, and peep over the
tramsom divulged the fact that the fasci-
mating maiden had fed, and with her had
disappeared all her trunks.
The solution of the robbery was too pal
pable but it had been such chef doeurre,
so skilfully devised, and so adroitly carried
out, and was such complete exhibition OF
their verdancy, that they concluded, rather
than run the battery of fun that would in
evitably be fred at them in being so COM
petely done for by one they had learned to
love, that it was agreed to preserve q
solemn silence On the subject.
The young man who had go gushingly
compared her notes to those of the morning
lark was now more convinced than ever OF
the truth of his assertion-for her mischiey-
ous freak Of appropriating the property OF
others on morning lark struck him very
eensiblv, as he was minus his timepiece and
sunlry bank bills with which he had ex-
pected to liquidate claim that morning.
Every effort was made to keep the affair
secret, but it finally leaked out, and
coming to the ear of our reporter, we con.
Guided to make mention of it in hopes that
it might provo warning to landladies with
overweeing confidence and young men with
susceptible hearts.
Of course the reader will at once per-
ceive that the irresistible young lady had
an outside confederate operating with her.
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