The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-12-28
THE TROUBLES o FAGAYIOTHARTO
OR, AN UNWELCOME VISITOR.

nOspltaDle OF us, when any visitor is
unwelcOme; but in the case we are
about to relate the visitor was peculiar
ly so, because it was solemnly believed
by the person visited that he came with
a hostile intent.
To make a short story long, we shall
have to mention some of the idiOsyn-
crasies of our herO-not the visitor, but
the pisitee-and dive a little into his
past history for the purpose of placing
before our readers that chain of facts
which, under the pressure of said lido
sy~nerasies, were brought to a denoue-
ment n night this week by an incl
dent which could not possibly produce
a similar effect upon anybody else.
He is young and thinks himself hand
some-which he is. He thinks himself
smart-which he is, for he writes anna
tory verses p~rofusely. He is a great adj
mirer of the fair sex, and loves them in
the plural number. Not n love, nor
one love at a time, is enough for him.
He has been in love with as many as
six at one time and loved them all to
distraction, but did not know which
he loved best. They were all equally
fortunate, and consequently should
have been equally happy. Andin justice
we must say, he was firmly of the opin-
ion that all entertained the same re-
gard for h~im-hefore they convinced
him to the contrary. He is habitually
a happy being, happy in the sweet fam
cies which naturally float in his mind;
and bitter ones do not appear there
except by force of circumstances. If
he had been one of Jacobs sons, he
would have been that one named Reu-
ben. Put him among saints and he
would he a saint too, not from policy or
hypocritically, but from feeling. Put
him with sinners, and non would be
a greater sinner than he. The influence
at hand is the one that controls him ;
and pulling up stream is no part of his
philosophy. Let him be in love with
one pretty girl, and even engaged to
her; and put him with another one, and
he will fall in love with and make love
to her also-and this adj infnitune. It is
his nature and he cannot help it. He
says he had nothing to do with fixing
up his constitution, or he would have
made a different job out of it.
He belongs to a wandering guild, and
has been con a tramp" in several States
and visited several large cities, North
and South. Wherever he goes the in
evitable love entanglements are sure to
follow. In the Northern States suits
are often brought for breach of prom
Use of marriage; but our hero being
young and inexperienced was notaware
of this fact at the outset of his career.
At all events, he knew that he never
had enough of this worlds goods to
tempt the humblest of the daughters
of Eve, and he did not think that any
one of them would call in the strong arm
of the law against a poverty-stricken
recreant lover-he thought only the
rich ones ever met with that fate. So
he felt at liberty to go ahead conquer
ing female hearts and leaving them
desolate behind, until he arrived at
that point reachedby Alexander when he
wept that there were no more worlds
to conquer.
This was in q Northern State, and our
hero is a Northerner; he was young
then and had not that knowledge of the
world and things which onlyexperience
can give. He had wooed and won a
a lovely girl, after an unusually warm
contest, his ardor had cooled, and he
began to neglect her. She sent for him
and expostulated with him, with q
warning, threatening look in her eye,
and he promised to do better. He did
do better for awhile, as far as external
appearances went; but soon he fell of
again, and apparently he had abandoned
her. He says that the first thing he
knew the Police were after him-a
friend discovered it and gave him time
ly information and he thought his
health would be better if he would 90
to another and distant part of the i'm
mense city wherein he resided, which
he did without delay. He says this
made him aware for the first time that
there was any recourse against an i'm
pecuniOus lover for breach of promise
and as the Police did not give up the
search, he thought he would decamp
and go to q o congenial cline
down South-where such foolish laws
and social customs do net prevail.
So, South he came; and at q certain
place therein he fell in love with one of
her fair daughters, and Wasloved, deep
" and truly loved, in return. But low
ers as well as friends must part; and
circumstances Of a business nature,
Cover which he had no CONTROL com
PEELED him to go to another place.
Their parting was as afaectionate as low
ers' partings can OF ought to be, rs there
is always a chance for failure in love as
well as in business affairs, and that
failure followed by regret, on the part
of the lady at least, for the manner in
which she had exhibited her affection.
This parting was followed by q cores
pondence. AT the beginning of It, two
letters-very long ones-were written
per day, with blue ink on gilt-edge pa
per, all aglow with that degree of
affection which newly separated young
lovers hunt in dictionaries, novels and