The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-10-13

lady" The advertiser requested that
JAIL applications should be made in per
son to Mrs. Holly, Luton. Terms lib
eral The highest references given and
.roquired."~ This was the advertisement
Effie Darlington, in want of home, an
swered it Gin person." as requested, and
had the satisfaction of finding out that il
was hoax, practical joke, perpetrated
by some idle ruffian, who cared not how
many honest women he defrauded oil
their time provided this, the( most face.
Ftious combination of circumstances he
could imagine. could be effected.
Our story has nothing TO do with him
lone does not, by preference chronicle
the delngs of a. fool--but we wilt follow
EEfiessl fortunes from the moment the truth
Idawned upon herithat theusituasion and
EthsIelderly lady were alike intanxibies
She had expended nearly every pound
she was lapossesseda Il of in 81 the
world in this journey, only to find. heI
money and her time wasted. 5 Az she
stood in the High street of Luton, after
Listening to the postmaster's assurance
that no such person asoMrs. Holly exist.
ed in Luton, the girlfelt very desperate
1t was Of no use, she told herself,g going
back from whence she came--London had
IoDly been hard, big, barren wilderness
to her. b It WAS no use standing still and
Ilamenting.i aQai-scence lis only virtue
when welletofd do friends are standing by
toahelp the quiescsnt. Il - lit was snoj use
doing ahything,'' shewa inostthinking
bfn iieri despair, when hsfiey es fell upon
the largely pIacarde ed notice of a ball al
the Luton Assembly Rooms, to take
place that very night. mid 9oalg S1gW !
II will go and see ifany one will be
pitiful enough to believe me, and help me
TO find employment and, home," she
thought And SO she went back to the
| inn where she had her boxes when shs
went out to seek for Mrs. Holly, and un.
packed an evening dress, id which, when
the time came, she arrayed herself, and
went to the ball. She described herseli
to the ticket taker as an artist about tc
settle in town \" and she fervently hoped
that she looked older than her age, in or.
der, that the respectable matrons of Lnf,
ton might think it no crime in her &c
dare to aspire to teach the rudiments oil
drawing to their daughters "2''9 .
| s.
this, time, looking younger than he'
years, by reason Of the exceeding fairness
of her hair and compl xion, and the ex
ceeding lightness and slenderness Of hei
figure. A pretty girl, with sweet
thoughtful blue eyes, and adeiicately cut
mouth that could look very sorrowful
When she entered that little country
town ball room alone, in quiet, exquis
litely made, black dress, she caused sen
sations But the, sensation caused by hel
distinguished appearance among the mer
was nothing compared to that caused BY
her audacity among the women rs
f. Two or three of the more particular
and pugnacious of the lady patronesses
gathered themselves together and deter
mined to demand an explanations. And
she, seeing this, advanced upon them
hoping to disarm, them by her swectn, s.
and veracity, and told the story of the
hoax She should stay in Luton, she
Thought, (here her voice faItered, and
they put her down in their. own minds al
more, deprayed than they had believed
while she only smiledl, "".and try and wiz
her way; she was very friendless, very
poor, and very anxious to work. Would
they help her ?n5n ls,s sidT ~ s5a
| Would they help her! There was
small promise of help in the averted eye;
and the hard tones of the self constituted
Jury of British matrons who were sitting
upon her case. : /" Under the circumstan
cess the forewoman Of, the .conclave told
her, it spoke little for her judgement
land taste to have forced herself into
their ball room. Why bad she not wait
ed, and made her desire for, respectable
employment known in q more unassumine
manner AS she had obtruded herself
she must abide the issue. With those
comforting words the jury broke up, the
spokeswoman brushing her. garments
aside SO that they might not be contami
mated by contact with EMe's. elf had
waited | might have starved" that pre-
sumptuous young person said as they left
her, but she spoke in very low, broker
voice, and perhaps they did not hear her
+ Nightly in hundreds of ball rooms, OF
some other gay haunt of humanity, suffer
ing, heart-stricken, desperate, hopeless.
women must be footing it with apparent
ease and dizziness. But, perhaps, no one
more hopeless and desperate than Effie
ever belied her heart by her manner
For just two or three hours she would
stay, and seem to have place, however
poor,in life's gayities, she thought. Their
she would go out-where; ,f go, CO.,
+ But before these two ) or three hours
were over, things had assumed differ
ent aspect. Raymond Helmsleigh, waltz
ed with her, saw her beautiful, found hel
charming, and felt himself frantically de
sirous of seeing more--a great deal more
of her, all in a minute. She told him
briefly and truthfully the tale of why
she was there. And he grew furious witt
the foolish author of the hoax, and san
guine as to the success of her scheme Of