Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-03-10
(From the Cincinnati TimesJ -
A Gushing Victilniser.
A IRREGULAR MORNING LARK-A CHARM
ING YOUNG LADY DOES A FASHION,
fa ABLE BOARDING HOUSE. asss 81

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But short time ago, on one of those
lovely days which have graced the present
winter, a 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 cast of thought upon her face, but
to one versed in physiognomy there was
to be seen hidden beneath all this deep
and artful cunning. She had all the APP
pearance 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 in
vestments in real estate, in which she was
to be interested in connection with her
brother, who was to accompany the
aunt. She wanted to engage rooms
in a private and fashionable
boarding house, and for that purpose
made the round of the most aristocratic
houses of that character, until she finally
selected one upon Fourth street. By way
of recommendation to her landlady, she
made the above statement regarding her
visit to this city, and also exhibited sew
eral letters purporting to be from infiuen-
tial families of the highest standing in
st. Louis. This appeared to satisfy the
unsuspicious landlady, and she at once
assigned the young lady to the best room
in the house, which had the conveniences
essentially necessary for even the most
tender plant of the aristooratio shoot.
The young lady, who was exceedingly
fascinating, could not but attract the
young men of the house-dapper clerks,
statesmen in wholesale houses, bookkeepers,
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 favorite In the house. She had,
in addition to her varied accom-
plishments, beautiful contralto
sweetly her wildwood notes that there was
no resisting her. One of the enraptured
young men declared that she sang with
the sweetness of the morning lark. She
was perfect Circe in her fascinating
manners, and her brilliant 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 en-
ioyment in her society to venture out.
Music and dancing and cards alternated,
and SO the time passed along most en-
trancingly. All the men were in love
with her, and one, a late partner in
wholesale house, Wac On the point of max
ing a declaration to her, when the sun
shine which had so brilliantly entered the
house with the handsome young lady, all
at once became darkened, and he was lift
ed from his air castles down to terra tirnaa
with most lugubrious countenance. 1t
was on the morning of dark and dismal
day when the boarders arose and ascer-
tanned that their money and valuables
had taken wings unto themselves and
Gone where the woodbine twineth.
Even the landlady wept over the loss of
a splendid diamond mounted gold watch.
But the dashing and prepossessing beauty
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, end, knocking at
the door, received no answer. Again she
knocked, and again no answer. "A faint
suspicion began to creep into her mind,
and, as the suspicion grew, the more nerv-
GUS she became and the louder she
knocked, until finally she was satisfied
there was no living person in the room.
A step ladder was then procured, and a
peep over the transom divulged the fact
that the fascinating maiden had fled, and
with her had disappeared all her trunks.
The solution of the robbery was too pal
pable; but it had been such a chef a.
auUre, so skillfully devised and SO adroitly
carried out, and was such complete ex-
hibition of their verdancy, that they |
concluded rather than run the battery of |
fun, that woald inevitably be fred at |
them in being SO completely done for
by one they had learned to love, that it |
was agreed to preserve a solemn silence
on the subject. The young man who had
so gushingly compared her notes to those
of the morning lark was now more con-
WINGED than ever of the truth of his asser-
tion-for her mischieveus freak of appro-
priating the property of others on morn
ing lark struck him very sensibly, as he
was minus his time piece and sundry
bank bills with which he had expected to
li4uidatc claim that morning. Every
effort was made to keep the affair Sc
cret, but it finally leaked out, and, COM
ing to the ear of our reporter, we con-
Guided to make mention of it in hopes
that it might prove warning to landla-
dies with everweening confidence and
young men with susceptible hearts. Of
course the reader will at once perceive
that the irresistible young lady had an
outside confederate operating with her.